Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trinidad went Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, the Bronx Zoo's much-traveled curator of mammals and reptiles. This time he was looking for parasol ants, which carry leaves and flowers in their mouths, umbrella-fashion...
...loud speaker system was rigged up in New Lecture Hall for the benefit of those visiting speakers who were as yet unaccustomed to sending forth their words of wisdom in such booming fashion, as, for example, is so successfully used by Professor Merriman, mentor of History 1. The speaker system will not be used this fall, official said...
...musicomedy, Me and My Girl, which opened last winter, the Lambeth Walk by last week was being played to a frazzle on the radio, whistled to death in the streets, performed every fourth dance in London hotels and clubs. The dance-an easy, arm-in-arm walk, mock-Cockney fashion, with simple turns, knee-slappings and, at the end, a shout of "Hey!" or "Oi!" -had reached the continent, had penetrated even to Scotland. And last week, Arthur Murray, Manhattan dance teacher, returned from Europe with the Lambeth Walk at his toe-tips, vowing to launch...
Kallie Foutz (rhymes with snouts) of Salt Lake City, great-granddaughter of the late much-married (approximately 25 wives) Mormon Brigham Young, recently won a Make-the-Most-of-Yourself contest sponsored by the fashion magazine, Mademoiselle. Like her competitors, 5,000 other plain young women, she submitted pictures, composed a 500-word essay on ''Why I Should Be Chosen To Be Made Over." Long of nose, mousy of hair, skinny of figure, Miss Foutz won with a frank letter showing no self-pity, frank pictures indicating need of makeover (see cut). Last week she went to Manhattan...
...Secretary of War. While playing Secretary, Assistant Secretary Johnson has not neglected these duties. In fact, he has done a rapid, bang-up job. When he talks about the next war, Louis Johnson emphasizes: "The civilians will be fighting, too." Every U. S. citizen will be mobilized in some fashion. Heart of the War Department's plans for civilians is its Industrial Mobilization Plan, to throw U. S. industry into war-time gear with a minimum of muddling, profiteering and confusion. Core of I. M. P. is a file of 10,000 cards in Washington's stuccoed Munitions...