Word: dresse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dubinsky and the I.L.G.W.U. returned to A.F.L. pretty much on their own terms (TIME, June 17, 1940). They fought hard to clean out the racketeers in A.F.L. (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940) and advanced I.L.G.W.U.'s cause by such moves as: 1) getting Manhattan dress manufacturers to agree to penalize themselves for inefficiency, as defined by the union (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941); 2) persuading employers in the cloak & suit industry to pay $2 million a year into a workers' old-age insurance fund (TIME, June...
...capital of Bechuanaland (pronounced Betcher Wanna Land). The home would be a three-room bungalow with a tin corrugated roof. Ruth's arrival caused considerable commotion among the tribe (local traders were doing a brisk business in gaily colored prints, since the tribeswomen wished to live and dress up to the occasion). Actually, it may be months before Seretse's 100,000 tribesmen know whether or not they will have a white queen: the British government is holding an inquiry to determine whether or not Seretse had been legally chosen chief...
Last week, for The Cocktail Party, his new blank-verse comedy, Playwright Eliot appeared in a new role: the harried craftsman who jots notes in the balcony while the actor runs through the dress rehearsal. For four weeks in Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theater, Eliot had watched rehearsals, chatted with the actors over gin an water, and penciled his unpublished script with cuts and corrections...
...also an old complaint. Said the Daily Mail: "A bewildering muddle of a play." The Daily Express agreed: "[The playgoers] were . . . absorbed in laughing at his agile wit and trying to puzzle out just what he was getting at. The cast shared their bewilderment. At the end of the dress rehearsal, some of them were saying: 'Beautiful words, but what do some of them mean?'" By week's end, it seemed a good bet that West End and Broadway audiences would also soon get a chance to laugh-and puzzle over-The Cocktail Party...
...most brilliant of all Pinkham advertising ideas was Dan's proposal to put his mother's face on every ad. The result was inspired to the last detail-"the neat black silk dress, the tortoise-shell comb, the white fichu fastened with a cameo brooch," the perpetual smile, the sagacious and composed elderly features. Here was everybody's grandmother...