Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desperate communication received yesterday by the CRIMSON from Vogue, leading feminine fashion magazine, it was revealed that cosmetics manufacturers, charm schools, dancing academies, all, all are wasting their time. The only important thing in woman's relations with man is clothes. "A girl's day," the managing editor of Vogue confessed to the CRIMSON, "can be made or blasted by masculine comment on her clothes...
...voters, 11,000,000 of whom have just signed a highly idealistic "peace ballot." French voters also must be harangued, and soon that olive-skinned Auvergnat, dexterous Premier Pierre Laval, mounted the Assembly rostrum. Eight minutes later, when he stepped down, M. Laval drew his arm in most friendly fashion through that of Italian Chief Delegate Baron Pompoe Aloisi and they strolled down the aisle together while editors were getting out such banner heads as: LAVAL PUTS FRANCE BEHIND LEAGUE; UNITY WITH BRITAIN ISOLATES ITALY; ROME STUNNED, MAY LEAVE GENEVA...
...Geneva last week Sir Samuel Hoare told Premier Laval that "the British Government was ready to admit that the [Anglo-German] naval pact, or rather the method of its conclusion, had been regrettable and would prefer that it had not happened." This extraordinary statement, though entirely undercut in British fashion by its qualifying clause, seemed to mark the first admission by His Majesty's Government that in countersigning Adolf Hitler they may have historically blundered. The air having been cleared by this revelation, the British and French Governments, said Augur, "are now agreed that nothing done at Geneva can prevent...
...which is now playing, its fourth week at Keith's Memorial, shows maestro Fred Astaire once again flinging his hoofs about with wild and graceful abandon. Unlike "Roberts," "Top Hat" is not a fashion parade, but concerns itself with a typical Fred Astaire pursult of a coy and suspicious Ginger Rogers, in the style of the "Gay Divorces...
...masterly fashion the wily Greek persuaded the two Italians and the two white representatives for Ethiopia, who with himself comprised the League's arbitral commission, to concur unanimously in his Byzantine verdict. They also agreed not to decide whether Ualual is in Ethiopia or in Italian Somaliland...