Word: dress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Lasker has long been used to handling money; she started a dress pattern business (Hollywood Patterns) which boomed for 17 years. She was also a successful art dealer (she divorced her first husband, Art Dealer Paul Reinhardt, in 1934). In 1940 she married Albert D. Lasker; two years later he liquidated his rich advertising firm, Lord & Thomas, to busy himself with good works in science and medicine. Both the Laskers are interested in "finding out what is wrong, then helping people who try to clean up the mess...
...third-floor room at the Russian consulate, Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina nervously snapped off the mid-afternoon news broadcast. She walked to one of the windows overlooking the courtyard below, and wrenched it open. She stood there a moment-a plump, distraught, middle-aged woman in a ruffled blue dress...
Last week, to fill a gap in U.S. information, Royall announced a survey of the least known of the possible alternate routes-across the watersheds of the Atrato and Truandó rivers in northwest Colombia. A joint U.S.-Colombian commission will start a full-dress survey within 60 days. The work will take about six weeks, will cost $150,000. The findings will be considered by the U.S. Congress when it gets around-perhaps next year-to redefining U.S. canal policy...
After 21 months of marriage (her second, his sixth), brunette Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor told the judge about life with her clarinet-tooting husband, Artie Shaw. In the tabloids, it all sounded like a souped-up version of her own Restoration fiction, in modern dress. In 31 pages of searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner...
...Style. No one saw any basic changes. The New Look was still the style. The only notable trend was an extravagant use of material (as much as 40 yards of cloth in one dress alone) which marked the collections of such New Look creators as Christian Dior...