Word: cutthroats
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...custom designers of exclusive models; others (like Nettie Rosenstein, Germaine Monteil) adapters of style to the mass-produced items that have made the average U. S. woman the best-dressed average woman in the world. But the U. S. dress business, from Fifth Avenue to Seventh, is atomic, leaderless, cutthroat, jealous of itself. Its genius is mass production; its best designers have shown little will to be independent of Paris couture. And Paris couture was only 30% dependent on the U. S. market...
...with a razor-edge program: 1) break relations with Britain and the U. S.; 2) declare war on China, so as openly to oust all rival interests; 3) produce thousands of new airplanes, tanks, submarines. Kuhara chose for his slogan, a peculiarly un-Nazi cry which originated in a cutthroat political campaign in Milwaukee in 1867, but which has since been immortalized as a typewriter-testing sentence: "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party...
...Came to Dinner, Kaufman & Hart's cutthroat comedy about Alexander Woollcott, is a smash hit in Manhattan, a smash hit in Chicago. Last week Playwright Kaufman went to the West Coast to direct a third production, in which Woollcott will play Woollcott. Before Kaufman went, he and Hart gave a party for Monty Woolley, who plays the title role in Manhattan...
...Harris), George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart had a smash hit on their hands. Tale of a famous lecturer who goes to a dull dinner-party in an Ohio town, gets hurt, and has to stay on in the house for weeks, the play's wit is as gleamingly cutthroat as its antics are gorgeously custard-pie. The identity of the lecturer is as open a secret as the fact that George Eliot was a woman. Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) is an unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott, who has been a friend of the authors' as long...
...Baltimore the clubbers heard a speech by Pianist Olga Samaroff (born Lucy Hickenlooper in San Antonio, Tex. and once married to Conductor Leopold Stokowski), who deplored the profession's "cutthroat competition," stepped up by refugee musicians in the U. S. The ladies re-elected as their president curly-browed, sweet-spoken Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober of Norfolk, Va., to whom The Good Fairy Valse was dedicated and played by Pianist Henry Holden Huss. Mrs. Ober waved a triumphant wand...