Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave credence to several wild opinions, plus one statement, that indicate that your "authority," Mr. Packer, is quite an abnormal fellow. . . . Mr. Packer is quoted: "The anxiety which follows a losing run, the empty feeling in the stomach ... in time come to be appreciated in a masochistic fashion...
Recent accounts of Mt. Etna's new eruptions bring to mind the time--three years and six days ago--when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in similar fashion but was little publicized because it was responsible for the crippling of a medium bomber outfit of which I was a member...
...thing, fashion reporters were finally permitted to disclose the breathlessly awaited details of the royal trousseaux. Hats were "off the face," for royalty may not hide from onlookers under a lowering brim. For Princess Elizabeth there were pastel evening gowns, "really romantic, with rustling, or softly flowing full skirts." For 16-year-old Margaret ("She's a nice kid," said one of the designers, "with a naughty glint in her eye"), at least one "slinky, grown-up looking, sophisticated" chiffon. "Her Majesty," wrote one reporter, "is expected to land in a misty blue, bordered with matching ostrich feathers...
Carnival time brought no carnival to Athens last week. The people did not, in the fashion of happier years, cavort through the streets behind the gaitanaki (mock donkey formed by two clowns). The season brought only reminders of the fact that Greece was one of Europe's unhappiest nations...
Moment of Greatness. In 1936, he courageously sacked his own supporter, crooked Minister of War George ("The Thunderbolt") Kondylis, declared an amnesty for anti-royalists, and instituted a liberal Cabinet. For a while George was so popular that his subjects took to wearing monocles, in his fashion. But the spell did not last long; when the anti-royalists became difficult, he permitted the late, pro-German John Metaxas to form an iron dictatorship which lasted till World War II. It was then that George had his moment of greatness. When the Greek people inspired the world by fighting against Italy...