Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From 11 o'clock to 5 o'clock on both dates, the bloodletting will be held in the usual efficient and painless fashion at Brooks House, with Cambridge Red Cross Workers standing by with sponges, doughnuts and coffee...
...most evident. Hungarian-born John von Neumann secured the collaboration of Princeton's economist Oskar ("Business Cycles") Morganstern in his comprehensive mathematician's-eye view of economic phenomena. Von Neumann currently supervises construction of the Princeton calculator, and electronic digital affair differing from Harvard's in the same fashion as the University of Pennsylvania's "Eniac," which chooses a course of action rather than "thinks...
...turn of the century, when she was already middleaged, private commissions from British art patrons to fashion jewelry took her to London. There Novelist Henry James sat through some of her interminable monologues about art, nicknamed her "The Conversationalist...
...fashion show was put on with the best of intentions. Each garment was approved beforehand by a secret committee which agreed that it did not want anything silly or sensational. The purpose, said the sponsoring Los Angeles Fashion Group (mostly movie designers), was nothing so sordid as sales or headlines; it was to "improve taste" and "help turn fashion into more channels of sound and dignified progress [and] away from fly-by-night fads...
Thus shrewdly lured, some 1,200 store executives, buyers and fashion writers from all over the U.S. attended the $17-a-plate champagne supper last week at which Hollywood's "Fashion Futures" were unveiled. What they saw, in Earl Carroll's gaudy Hollywood restaurant, was enough to make some of them wonder who was being kidded. The 98 displays, each by a different designer, ranged in effect from the muffled look of the '90s to the bare look of tiger-skin days...