Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often a fascinating study of the past, reviving handsomely the glory of bygone days and deeds. A similar entertainment presented on the stage would attract encomiums not only from critics but also from teachers, doctors and philanthropists. On the screen it will fail to do so only be cause fashion deems it unsophisticated to credit Hollywood with sincerity...
...Paris meanwhile, strong-nerved Fashion Creator Gabrielle Chanel told her striking dressmakers that, as the shop under her management could not earn the pay they demanded, they had better run it themselves and she would stay on to help the new owners as an unpaid stylist. At this the strong-nerved strikers told Mme Chanel that what she needed was ''more capital," marched off to try to get it from the Socialist Treasury. On being refused, they marched back and formally refused to take Mme Chanel's shop off her hands, she then refusing to keep...
...save Ethiopia from Italy with that flaming sword, the League of Nations. Having won the election Mr. Baldwin, who had created for "Tony" Eden the hitherto unheard of office of "Minister for League of Nations Affairs," sat back contentedly to let Ethiopia and Italy be dealt with in practical fashion by Sir Samuel Hoare, then Foreign Secretary, and by the bril liant professionals of the Foreign Office whose permanent head is Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart. In a few short weeks, by cooperating closely with the then French Premier, thick-lipped and unprepossessing Pierre Laval, they had produced "The Deal" (TIME...
...Your subcommittee of the Ways & Means has pending . . . [the Guffey] bill to stabilize the bituminous coal mining industry. . . . All doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill leaving to the courts, in an orderly fashion, the ultimate question of constitutionality. A decision by the Supreme Court relative to this measure would be helpful as indicating, with increasing clarity, the constitutional limits within which this Government must operate. . . . I hope your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation...
...such is the quest for new titles to old dishes. And the tripe served up this time needs a new name, indeed. A lot of vacuous material is handled in a devil-may-care fashion, but the effect usually falls short of amusing. A soapy soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby...