Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quite a few of Axelrod's letters begin "You're the kind of guy I want to work for," and are from experienced weavers, loom-fixers, fashion designers, buyers, superintendents, salesmen, workers from nearby mills, from all over New England, and from Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, Delaware, New York, California, Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Others are from novices who want to enroll in Axelrod's school in textile technique...
...boar-browed Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom was feeling fine when he set out on a drive to Washington last week. He hoped to testify before a congressional committee on tidelands oil. He planned to go to New York to see some fashion models who had voted him No. I Leap Year Bachelor, and thus get his picture in the papers. As a self-avowed presidential candidate, he also hoped to rebroadcast a campaign promise-that he would take his "ole cornshuck mop and his ole suds bucket" and sweep up the Democratic Party...
...Whether we can save Europe now or not, in our own defense we are compelled to try; in the process we may encourage Europeans to fashion a Europe worth defending for themselves and for us. This effort requires among other things a lot of the resources represented by our dollars-and a reasonable amount of applied intelligence...
Russian-born Rines, a patent attorney, went about his vendetta in businesslike fashion. He enrolled for courses at Harvard Medical School (he says he was dropped when the faculty learned the purpose of his studies) and at Massachusetts
Unlike Emerson, he applies scientific notions to life in a fashion that leaves ordinary readers with something of the feeling that the paper has been plastered on them, instead of on the wall. Yet the mere comparison with Emerson suggests the deepest difficulty that readers may find in Author Whyte's book...