Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London the family had been sedulously boning up on South African history, politics, economics and the Afrikaans language (they could all now say a cheery "How do you do?"-Hoe gaan dit?-to their hosts) while Britain's leading designers, Hartnell, Molyneux and Thaarup, labored feverishly on trousseaux. Fashion reporters were invited to see the new clothes but editors had to sign a solemn promise that the clothes would not be described until the royal ladies had appeared in them. Meanwhile, hints kept Britain's newspaper readers in more or less breathless anticipation...
Idealism, in the popular sense, was in full fashion among pre-Pearl Harbor students. It both pricked and tickled a contented and complacent America in the form of New Dealers, Willkie-ites, isolationists, prophets of the Golden Age of Science, the avant-garde of the "truly American" culture--it was the product of liberal education, too much education but still not enough. War broke most of the bones of those ideals, and now they are socially quite unpresentable. But an untouched and confident corps of students are stepping up to receive their dose of the liberal arts and they will...
...ballots returned showed a lack of interest in attending student produced plays. "The Workshop is highly encouraged by the response accorded its poll of students," Weisgal reported. One man, however, saw the Workshop's dooms-day approaching and announced, "You are combatting a mighty current in an unrealistic fashion, and will fail accordingly...
...temper showing itself according to the fluctuation of fortune -which is injurious to the backer's immediate circle and in particular to children. . . . Secondly, the anxiety which follows a losing run, the empty feeling in the stomach ... in time come to be appreciated in a masochistic fashion. They are part of the tension which gambling provides and which in my opinion is its principal attraction...
...thrill is gone. They are irritated-have been, let's face it, for years-by one another's eccentricities. What's more, each detests the other's family. And there is that old, old argument about Loretta's continuing her career as a celebrated fashion editor...