Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newest Soviet word to be endowed with pointed meaning is "culture." To attain such "culture," Russian comrades are now strongly urged by their Dictator to become neater in dress, mind and habits. Last week a prominent Soviet journalist who had just been received in the Kremlin told one of the few off-the-record stories about Stalin to get by the censor...
Just now buttons, shoes, dress goods, fountain pens and other articles of culture on which Russians have had to skimp for 20 years, are momentarily abundant in Moscow, having just arrived from Japan in barter-payment for Russia's share of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, March 25, 1935). Long queues of buyers at once formed but Soviet police, as usual, shortened them by the old device of arresting as "speculators" persons who bought more than one or two articles. Sentenced to five years in jail was a Moscow housewife who had bought only one pair of shoes...
...entrance." Englishman Beaton got his start with a cheap U. S. Kodak, still prefers it to the more "professional" cameras with expensive German lenses pressed upon him by Vogue. Nimble at climbing a mantelpiece while the lady relaxes below, imaginative Mr. Beaton has even gone so far as to dress the Countess of Oxford and Asquith up as a corpse and snap her surrounded by the lilies and wax candles of Death. Maiden voyagers on the Queen Mary were informed this week that they can at last buy for $5 a medal commemorating that recordless event. Maiden voyagers...
...that approximately four laps around it make a mile. Length of Burghley's 58-sec. run was therefore approximately a quarter-mile, for which the world's indoor record is 49.6 sec. Not only was Lord Burghley handicapped by the sharp turns, but also by full evening dress: tails, stiff shirt, pumps...
...Either there is a dark horse heading for the Berlin 400-metre gold medal, or evening dress has extraordinary effect on a runner's capabilities, or someone is fudging...