Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody was lovelier than blonde, Garboesque Mme. Hägglöf, graceful bride of the Swedish Charge. Nobody was fancier than the Norwegian Ambassador wearing every shape, cast, color and size of medal, decoration and ribbon. The new Ethiopian Minister, small and black, shone in his gold-braided costume. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr walked like a new Privy Councilor, impeccable in tails. U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman looked like a nervous young curate at an Episcopal convention-out of place in his too long, double-breasted business suit which he had tried to formalize with a stiff collar...
...fancying fans scream their favorites' numbers and colors. Changing odds are flashed instantly. Racing cards are free, food and drink is reasonable and good, as food now goes in Britain. The fancier tracks have clubs where a $10 membership buys such amenities as table service, private totalizator windows, attendants to place bets and pick up winnings...
Married. Army Lieut. John Thompson ("Jack") Dorrance, 23, only male heir to the Campbell soup millions (150), peacetime yacht-fancier, wartime instructor at Camp Crowder in Joplin, Mo.; and Mary Alice Bennett, 22, daughter of a Joplin mining man; in Joplin...
Only trouble with this scheme is that many a scrap owner may sniff higher prices, hold out for still fancier prices. Meanwhile WPB had its Industrial Salvage Committees going hot & heavy in 400 U.S. cities. Chief argument: patriotism. Thus Manhattan milliners surprised everybody, chipped in 150 tons of scrap (partly from eight huge hat-making presses); Maryland State officials collected a batch of square-cornered World War I tanks, started them on their last mile into a roaring steel furnace...
...Hedda Hopper (TIME, May 25) gives the impression that my good friend John Chapman was dropped along with his column. Hedda Hopper's gossip may have triumphed over John Chapman's facts, but I happen to know that the New York Daily News is not dropping fact fancier John Chapman. I think Chapman readers would be pleased to know this fact...