Word: existant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, Paul Poiret, famed dressmaker, declared modern male fashions "disgusting," "unmentionable," "like sausages," "like notaries," suggested for day wear in Summer "loose garments made of light materials which would feel as if they did not exist . . . trousers of an ethereal cut; for the evening, huge velvet capes that would fall into graceful folds...
...Attorney General Alter of Pennsylvania: Exhorted his colleagues to the speedy preparation and adoption of a "model code" as planned by the Association's Committee on Law Enforcement. Stated that at its last session the Legislature of his State created "nearly a hundred new crimes that did not exist before...
...musical show has been staged with the requisite regard for pace and variety, gives no opportunity for a yawn to get started. Thus, the Williams Sisters perkily berate the audience in a chanted number for being late and missing the opening chorus?which does not exist. Then comes a series of skits wherein the mortifying consequences of being tardy are revealed, generally with a sly double entendre sneaking...
Explorer Marsh has long been an enthusiast upon the subject of blond Indians. Anthropologists as yet decline to admit their existence, or to attempt to account for their ancestry in case they do exist...
...nationally known for their fine products, and sold largely to the southern trade- even to New Orleans. In the Civil War the factory, then a century old, made shoes for the Union Army. Up to this time, shoes were all handmade, and the shoemaking machinery of today did not exist. The factory cut the parts, which were stitched together by hand, in the cottages of their employes...