Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan famed Stylist Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, who is on her way from her Paris shops to Hollywood to design clothes for cinemactresses, received newsgatherers. She was attired in red sports clothes and wore a five-strand pearl necklace, ten bracelets. She said, among other things: "The perfume which many women use is not mysterious. Women are not flowers. Why should they want to smell like flowers? I like roses, and the smell of the rose is very beautiful, but I do not want a woman to smell like a rose...
Taken all in all Petticoat Influence does not fail to be diverting However, its most serious blemish is that the author has avoided subtlety would seem from the degree of success attained, by design...
...hangar which for two years was always locked, its windows frosted white to guard against peepers. Within strange craft were being built: a great twin-motored plane with two adjustable wings in tandem, with no ailerons and no tail assembly; and a motorless glider of similar design. The wings were designed something like a bird's, with the trailing edge of the front wing fluted, or "feathered." Scarcely less mysterious to the inhabitants of the field was the ship's inventor, Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inkstands and inks from which he was said to have earned...
Hard is the life of a portraitist. Bitterly did British sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman realize this last week. Year ago he won a competition to design an equestrian memorial statue of the late Field Marshal Lord Haig. In his own mind Sculptor Hardiman decided that when he was ordered to make an equestrian statue of Lord Haig he was really intended to glorify the British armies which the Field Marshal-distiller led. Accordingly he designed a heroic figure, stronger, stockier than Douglas Haig ever was, astride a monumental beast like a horse of a Roman conqueror...
...Most encouraging among these is the great growth in technical skill in connection with the design and traffic facilities and the control of traffic movement. This was demonstrated during the year 1930 by the organization of the Institute of Traffic Engineers, a national engineer- ing society with several score members professionally engaged by cities, States or private organizations in the relief of traffic conditions...