Word: dress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good design has always been good and cannot be dated. Though the myth of stylistic obsolescence keeps dress and car manufacturers in business, it remains a myth. This basic truth was thoroughly documented in last week's retrospective show of designed products at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Among the many chairs, for example, in the Modern Museum's show, perhaps the handsomest was an Austrian rocker, designer anonymous, manufactured back in 1860. And yet that ancient rocker, tendriled like a vine from the wine-heavy hills around Vienna, had a brisk, bald-bottomed rival...
...Soldier. At the somber, grey-walled Hotel Matignon, official residence of France's Premiers, the Republican Guards now wear dress uniform (white gloves, red epaulets) every day, and treat visitors with a new formality. Senior government officials no longer wander in whenever they feel like an informal chat, nor do they ring up the Premier on a direct line. De Gaulle, who regards the telephone as an intolerable impediment to concentration, has had the only one in his office disconnected...
...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green, a nostalgic anthology of their own works, is anything but elaborate: three stools for props, a couple of quick dress changes for Betty, one shirt switch for Adolph. What makes the show remarkable is that chic, cleancut Betty, 39, and fast, Fernandel-faced Adolph, 43, are not one wit changed from their cellar years...
There are an estimated 100 fast-draw clubs in the U.S. today. Denver alone has 13. Members dress up in fancy Western outfits, tote six-shooters that cost from $50 to $125 and are modeled on the classic six-shooter of the Old West...
...reigning pontiff, a reception room and a chapel. Each cardinal must have a private means of transport, and should avoid public carriers such as streetcars, buses and taxis. He must not drive himself. If he goes out for a walk, he must be accompanied by a clergyman and must dress in black, without any visible insignia of his rank...