Word: crepes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I seaman and pilot - he was a lieutenant (j.g.) when discharged - failed to loosen his Long Island roots. He has a small-towner's taste in clothes, usually wears blue-striped shirts and striped ties. He is particular only about his shoes, which must have thick, crepe-rubber soles (he bought ten pairs just before World War II began). These bulky sneakers are easy on his feet as he shambles over the acres of plant floors...
Last week, the debate concluded, the Marquess of Hartington repaired to the Chelsea Registry Office, accompanied by his best man, the Duke of Rutland. Both wore Guards' uniforms and snug Sam Brownes. Fifteen minutes later Kathleen Kennedy arrived in delphinium pink suede crepe, a short mink jacket and a little hat of pink & blue ostrich feathers. Lieut. Joseph Kennedy Jr., U.S.N.R., came to give his sister away...
...Next morning he slept luxuriously late. When he awoke he learned that the sweaters he had brought for the kids were too small; the real crepe de Chine nightgown for his wife too large...
Since World War II began, professional mourners have repeatedly hung crepe on the door of small business. But small business bullheadedly refused to die. Last week this stubborn survivor got a shot in the arm. Needle wielder was droopy-lidded, deadpan Robert Wood Johnson, boss of the Smaller War Plants Corp. The shot: a new plan for civilian production in small plants...
...great druggist died last week. A swatch of black crepe hung over the picture of little, round-faced Dr. J. Leon Lascoff in the Manhattan drugstore he founded in 1899. He was the dean of the old-fashioned U.S. pharmacists - the proud little group to whom a soda fountain and its attendant Comus' crew are anathema...