Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shambling Mauro Scocci-maro, noted for his long, unwashed hair, dirty shirts and doctrinaire stubbornness, holds office as Minister of Finance; but when Premier de Gasperi drops him, Party Boss Togliatti does not even put up a fight. This is no time for unwashed comrades. Togliatti himself sets the fashion of what the well-dressed Communist will wear: a neat, double-breasted blue business suit...
When the horses go to the post this afternoon at Churchill Downs, Edward R. Hewitt, 2nd '47 will be watching eagerly from the boxes, camera, field glasses, and tip sheet firmly in hand as his father's colt, Phalanx, gets away from the starting gate in its usual leisurely fashion...
...that recalls by its luridness the same scene as painted in the liturgical "Dies Irae." Mr. Hindemith's musical setting, though interspersed with brass interludes in his familiar fugal style, is perhaps a shade expeditious for so picturesque a subject. It trips, or rather bumps along in a jolly fashion that depicts little and scares no one; but it is distinguished music, if a bit ineffective (largely on account of the constant use of contrapuntal repeating-patterns) in its efforts at vividness. Its most vigorously expressive moment is one that describes the gnashing of teeth...
...poor marks in Beteta's course-a girl, Beatriz Velasco, a pupil in a nearby domestic science school. Aléman used to rush through his studies, meet Beatriz and carry her books home. In time Miguel's friends visited the Velascos and, in the ceremonial Mexican fashion, argued that he was a fine boy, with a good reputation and good prospects. After due investigation, he became her novio oficial, with the right to come to dinner occasionally, to sit in the sala afterwards with Beatriz (and parents), and talk of serious things. In 1931 they were married...
...ancient Incas fully appreciated chinchillas; they wore the skins and ate the flesh. Sometimes the Incas sheared them like tiny sheep, wove thistledown cloth of their "wool." In the late 19th Century, a rage for chinchilla swept the world of fashion-and furriers soon swept the Andes bare of the little animals...