Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito, who has learned that one of the penalties of being a dissident Communist is the entertainment of all sorts of inquisitive capitalists, was in the midst of an even fancier social calendar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, first crowned head ever voluntarily to visit a Communist country, dropped in and celebrated his 62nd birthday in Belgrade. Later this summer, to repay Tito's visit of last June, Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika will try out Tito's growing talents as a host...
...stationary tool for ripsawing heavy pieces of wood, buys himself an arbor saw for $150. Next he wants a jointer for cutting precise corners, which costs him $130. Then he wants something to drill deep, accurate holes, and so buys a drill press for $100. As he graduates to fancier work, and starts putting intricate filigrees in his woodwork, he needs a jig saw, and that costs $65. The heavy curved lines on his masterpieces now call for a band saw at $250. If his furniture is to have legs, he must buy a lathe for $200 to turn them...
...TIME'S thanks to Scuppernong-Fancier Strickland for a fuller explanation of the problem...
More than that, Millionaire Cunningham is the ranking figure in the whole throbbing, racketing U.S. preoccupation with motor cars and engines. Before World War II, youngsters with a hankering for speed and excitement almost inevitably took to airplanes. Now the young U.S. speed fancier is apt to find his big kick in tucking a Cadillac engine into the ribs of a Ford and barreling out to surprise his friends on the highway. Among the well-heeled, there is a boom in sports cars; among the nostalgic, the urge to find a "classic," or "antique," such as a vintage Mercer, Marmon...
...Corporation promptly appointed a retired Boston banker, Harold Murdock, director, making Pottinger his assistant. Murdock a book collector and fancier of fine printing, imported the world famous designer, Bruce Rogers, as printing adviser to the Press. Soon the Harvard University Press became equal to the old, Commercial University Press in fame for masterly editions. Pottinger worked closely with Rogers, and when outside duties slowly took Rogers more and more away from the Press, Pottinger did most of the designing. And it is generally conceded that under Pottinger's aegis the Press' reputation far from diminished...