Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While the conference stumbled on, Moscow's social life tripped on too. At one event (Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet at the Bolshoi Theater), Western observers noted an unfamiliar Russian folkway. As Molotov entered the Ministers' box, the audience began to applaud stormily; according to a fashion set by Stalin some years ago, Molotov applauded back. This went on for five minutes. Belle of the occasion was Mme. Bidault, in a grey chiffon Parisian evening gown that made Mme. Molotov look like a right-wing deviationist...
Togliatti's address had decided the issue, and all the deputies knew it. But the debate dragged on in desultory fashion till 2 a.m., when the Assembly's strangest alliance won by a vote...
...endless column, several hundred taxis churred past the gleaming Montevideo office building that houses the U.S. Embassy. No others (except for emergency calls) were on the streets. In this reproachful fashion, Monte cabbies protested last week against the beating of a fellow driver by U.S. sailors...
Adolphe Menjou, the veteran Hollywood fashion plate, was writing his memoirs. While he was thinking things over, he let go a considered judgment: "Not only are movies worse than they used to be; one might even say that now they are no good...
...most of them fellow-warriors of the colonel, that give it color and geniality. They keep popping in & out, seldom doing anything more striking than singing songs, drinking toasts, dabbling in the past, dreaming toward the future. But they frequently do all these things in a gay and human fashion, and occasionally their war experiences give the characters an unexpected third dimension...