Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ninety-eight percent of you will wear dark gray flannel trousers between ten o'clock in the morning and one o'clock at night. That is, you will unless a nationally famous fashion authority called General Hershey decides you ought to wear light khaki trousers and a nationally famous health expert called General Hershey feels you ought to wear them starting at six in the morning instead of ten. If that happens, none of my information applies. It's all based on having ninety-eight percent in gray flannels...
...Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, a Scottish morality play written in 1540 and last performed in 1554, was a high point of the festival. There was a production of the André Gide Hamlet. ("A moving experience," reported the New York Times's Dyneley Hussey of the famous soliloquies, though Hamlet in French, played by Jean-Louis Barrault, kept his voice pitched at "a tart oboe rather than the rich clarinet of English.") And for trimmings there was Highland music, bagpipe parades and dancing in West Princes Street Gardens, below Edinburgh Castle...
Scouts had picked Chicago's big Civic Opera House as "the place to open in America." While they waited for the company to arrive from Montreal, Chicago's socialites and Franco-American clubs prepared a Bourbonic welcome. There would be a huge party backstage in the famous Gold Key room on opening night. And the French Embassy was sending a diplomat to make it official...
...column about what she knows best-celebrities. It started last week (without a byline for the first few days) in the Los Angeles Herald & Express, and is ghostwritten by bespectacled Charles Gentry, onetime drama critic for Hearst's Detroit Times. "I'll write about, famous people, both inside and outside the U.S.," Cobina told a reporter. "After all, my dear, I've known just about everyone...
...Seal & Red Ink. In its heyday, Continental powered hundreds of models of independent automobiles with its famous "Red Seal" engines. But it was on the downgrade in 1931 when onetime Mechanic Jack Reese came in as purchasing agent; only a million-dollar RFC loan saved it from bankruptcy. In 1939, when Continental lost $215,165 on $7,000,000 in sales, RFC forced a reorganization and insisted that cost-conscious Jack Reese run the company...