Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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lowans knew that he would meet legislative puzzlers in the same head-on fashion. They also know that, come early April, he will head back to Cass County to do the job he loves best-help his fat brood sows farrow another crop of piglets...
...dress well the men had only to listen to Hollywood's Adolphe Menjou, fashion plate since the days of the silent cinema. He offered instructions. Among them: let the jacket sleeves be narrow, and the shirt cuff showing; never wear a striped shirt with a striped suit; wear suspenders instead of a belt; let the knot of the tie be loose instead of tight; let the trousers break just over the instep; stay away from jewelry. "The well-dressed man," certified the famously high-styled actor, "is never conspicuous...
...Things in Glocca Morraf, hit Manhattan before the show did. The brightest of the ditties, When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich, fills out a hilarious dream fashion-show in which the sharecroppers doll up in fantastic mailorder finery. Actor Sharpe, specially imported from Eire, makes a lively Finian, and David Wayne an immensely engaging leprechaun. Finian's Rainbow is not lacking in good things. What it really needed was an implacable blue pencil...
...career well spent, not in search of scoops but in quest of understanding between peoples. In characteristic Lewis fashion, it would not end abruptly. First he would break in a successor. Then, some time in the spring, his spare, well-clad frame and his bass-drum voice would clear out of his small, wildly cluttered office in Washington's National Press Building. After that, he and the leisurely Times didn't quite know...
...their prospectuses, neither Sir William Beveridge (Full Employment in a Free Society) nor Henry Wallace (Sixty Million Jobs) had described how to fashion such a bridle. Beveridge merely outlined the problem: "So long as freedom of collective bargaining is maintained, the primary responsibility of preventing a full-employment policy from coming to grief in a vicious spiral of wages and prices will rest on those who conduct the bargaining on behalf of labor. . . . How real is this possibility [of inflation] cannot be decided on theoretical grounds. . . . But the fact remains that there is no inherent mechanism in our present system...