Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doors of Manhattan's soot-flecked Grand Central Palace this week open on the 1939 version of the greatest annual U. S. fashion parade, The National Automobile Show...
...hungrily up to the piano. Conductor Koussevitzky was ill, so it fell to Concertmaster Richard Burgin to dish it up. When the pie was opened and the bats began to squeak, the audience could hear that Composer Krenek had been true to his atonality, and in his own fashion. A dozen Bostonians got up and left; of those who remained some were puzzled, some worried, some tolerantly amused; a few politely applauded...
...National Horse Show, held annually in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, has long been the No. 1 sport event on the U. S. social calendar, partly because the high jinks and hubbub which always accompany it afford occasion for a discreet parade of fashion and public display, partly because it is one of the few sporting events in which women can compete on an equal footing with men. But it was not until the 1920s, when the horse had lost its last stigma of practicality, that the Horse Show, with two exceptions an annual event since 1883, actually came...
...Harvard team as a whole played in a listless and loggy fashion. Their sustained drives were practically negligible. Defensively on the ground they held the visitors to 34 yards, but in the air, both offensively and on the defense, the Crimson were distinctly odorous. They tried 15 forwards and completed two for a gain of less than 30 yards, while their opponents completed eight out of 21 aerials and made 152 yards by them...
...with a counterattack as savage as the charge of the Cadillacs driven by the Barcelona volunteers; of militiamen using as weapons anything that came to hand-old automobiles, old airplanes, revolvers, dynamite, makeshift armored trains. Largely written in Spain between July and November 1936, it was turned out, diary-fashion, while Malraux was leading the Loyalist air force. After flights over Franco's ter ritory, he shut himself up in Madrid's Hotel Florida, wrote in five or six-hour spurts, making few corrections...