Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashion in hopping was vitamin B-1 injections, administered 24 hours before a race. Some of the crooked gyps believed that an older method-benzedrine-worked too, and did not show up in a saliva test the first time it was given. Everybody wanted to collect purse money ($525 to a winner) before the park fell on its face. Track stewards ruled three gyps off the track for "hopping...
Like a Bag Race. To make matters worse, women were none too happy about 1947 fashions. They especially objected to lengthened skirts. Designers, revelling in OPA-less freedom, had gone berserk with swirls and pleats. They had dropped the hemline from the knee to at least midcalf. Some daytime dresses went almost to the ankles, making their wearers look like entries in a bag race. Resistance to these long skirts increased in direct ratio to distance from New York. In Chicago, a parade of long skirts at a fashion show drew a chorus of disgusted "Eeeks!" A customer at Chicago...
...guard the tomes which hulge the University library announced their vacation-time borrowing policy yesterday. Word from Widener outlawed the withdrawal of reserve books from the Reading Room, while books not on the reserve lists may be borrowed in the time-honored fashion at the horseshoe desk...
After the free-spending war years, millions were suddenly finding a kind of savage satisfaction in refusing to buy. Despite the most honeyed words of Vogue and other fashion magazines, women in all U.S. cities were betraying no sudden fascination for the new clothes with longer skirts. Expensive Scotch and bonded bourbon sat untouched in liquor stores-the U.S. had gotten used to cheaper blends. Detroit used car lots were jammed with new automobiles for resale at fabulous prices, but almost nobody was having...
...next 24 years John Benjamin Powell came to know China, its people and their problems as few other foreigners did. His China Weekly Review became a highly respected journal of news and opinion. Long before it became the fashion, the militant little paper took sides against the invading Japanese. When they tried to silence him with bribes and threats, Powell sneered at them and lined his pressroom doors with steel. The day after Pearl Harbor, the Japs shut up his shop, and later clapped Editor Powell into filthy, ice-cold Bridgehouse Prison. Before he got out, starvation...