Word: disappearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riffling through a stack of photographs of Soviet bigwigs, the current Tailor & Cutter is driven to the inescapable conclusion that "fashion in Russia died with the aristocrats. The class having been so successfully destroyed, it was natural that all its facets should disappear. And so the Soviet leaders cling grimly to the clothes of the period that saw the birth of their administration...
What Every Woman Knows. In one sense, of course, Lisa Fonssagrives would never stop. If her face should disappear from the magazines tomorrow, other faces would crowd to take its place and the American public would scarcely know the difference. For the model is more than an individual; she has become a type and an inevitable part of the American scene. She is everywhere; she smiles down from mountains and from steely skyscraper façades, from billboards and from the most exclusive bars. She is no longer an enticing stranger; the American is fond of her, sometimes irritated...
Among the Music Hall's scenic effects: rainfall (from pipes high above the stage); Niagara Falls (out of tanks of an agitated soap solution); a full-sized train that can disappear into the hills; a steam curtain that fills the stage with billowing clouds; an ocean freighter that is torpedoed, splits in two and sinks from sight. The stage has also held a swimming pool, a helicopter and 30 trained horses...
...period when a good many Americans resented the Legion's big-stick and big-talk policy. The 75th Congress, faithfully mirroring the mood of the U.S. public, dug itself in behind a bulwark of neutrality legislation and arms embargoes, and hoped that Europe's troubles would disappear if no one noticed them. The Secretary of War, Harry Woodring of Kansas (a "sincere pacifist," Louis Johnson later called him), felt the same...
Ernst Reuter, West Berlin's stalwart Socialist mayor, said: "Of course it's a good thing. I'm very happy. At last the Russians have climbed down. Now I hope they'll disappear from our midst." But everyone realized that the battle for the city would continue. East Berlin's Communist Party called for conferences to end the split in the city government. To this, Ernst Reuter retorted: "Work with those people-never...