Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rose's chalk and ink drawing of the making of the death mask of Christian Berard was far less cluttered and, for all its quiet horror, easier to take. It showed the smiling corpse of the Paris fashion arbiter elaborately bibbed in preparation for the mold maker, who sat, dabbling in a bowl of plaster, by the deathbed...
...honorary Master of Arts. Amateur Campbell also announced that he expected to retire as Pickering Memorial Astronomer, a special post created to further Campbell's work with amateurs. As for the future: "I'm not going to quit astronomical work-just carry on in a more leisurely fashion...
...hour broadcast was over, Cope had worked up an appetite for a heaping platter of fried eggs, sausages and hot biscuits, washed down by more coffee and bourbon. Then he settled down to write his daily newspaper column, "Channing Cope's Almanac," in the same breezy, cracker-barrel fashion in which he talks...
...best thing in the show is Ray Bolger, who dances in his own long-legged, rag-doll fashion-without even trying to imitate the crisper style of Jack Donahue. In one scene, as elegantly leggy as a giraffe, he ambles and ogles his way through a wonderful soft-shoe shuffle. Whenever Bolger is on hand, Silver Lining turns to pure gold. Otherwise, it is richly colored, but only medium-grade...
...Record. The Liberals went to the country on their record. They promised nothing new, but they pointed with pride to their welfare-state program, baby bonuses, unemployment insurance, etc. The Tories accepted these measures and, in the fashion of U.S. Republicans, promised to administer them better...