Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past decade and longer, the feminine fashion silhouette, far from following the natural lines of the figure, has been rigidly molding it into lines that are not only unnatural, but what is worse, unfeminine. Hips were strait-jacketed to nothingness; no one was supposed to have more bosom than an adolescent girl; the shoulders exaggerated and monstrous...
...Truman might supply it by an appeal to people's faith-Gandhi-fashion. Or he might try persuasion...
...American side, there was no unanimity. Without meaning to distort the news, A.P. and U.P. had heightened the disorder simply by covering the facts in approved police-reporter fashion, stringing them together in the order of the excitement they contained. In the New York Times, Correspondent Edward A. Morrow also wrote of truncheons and firehoses. But he took pains to say that the soldiers "kept their tempers and followed orders to use a minimum of force...
Married. Louise Gill Macy Hopkins, 42, fashion expert, third and last wife of the late White House adviser, Harry Hopkins; and Geoffrey McNair Gates, 43, director of Manhattan's Parsons School of Design; both for the third time; in Ardmore...
...epic attempt to disinter the whole Confederacy. Says one character: "The Lord is on our side, but in consequence of pressing engagements elsewhere He could not attend at Fisher's Creek, Winchester, and Atlanta." If the Lord could not attend, history-grubbing Author Williams could, after a fashion...