Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flurry over whether London's statue to F.D.R. should show him sitting or standing (TIME, Nov. 25) was building into a williwaw. In typical British fashion, most of the wind was blowing up & down the letters-to-the-editor columns in short, violent gusts...
Ruth Gordon as a playwright, like her mother before her as a housewife, has to make a little bit go a long way. Years Ago is moseying and uneventful, and its curtains sometimes come down because there is absolutely nothing left to keep them up. But in its mild fashion, it is pleasant enough; it is streaked with humor and period detail, and buoyed up by a good production. And it shrewdly keeps to the popular formula of playing up all the crotchets and toning down all the real collisions of family life; of being not so much true...
...included Mrs. Dandridge Spotswood (1908), later the Baroness Eugene de Rothschild; Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson modeling for her husband's "Gibson Girl" (1896); Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill (1906). There was also a tour of Bohemias (homegrown and foreign) that wound up in a lush wilderness of fashion, liquor and perfume ads. Editor Bull's dollar-a-copy production number was certain to sit well where Town & Country is read: in paneled libraries, and under the dryers in a host of beauty salons...
Look' through the Wall. "Cecil B. DeMille is out of fashion among the critics. But ... I have seen The Sign of the Cross twice over and am still an unrepentant admirer. There is no director to touch him in command of the medium: certainly none who strikes such awe into my professional mind . . . [with] his crowds and continuities, yes, and images too. ... How good and fine an artist he is may possibly be another matter. . . . I like both his bathtubs and his debauches, for the sufficient (I hope technical) reason that they are the biggest and the best...
...opening contest of last night's double-header, Georgetown buried Boston College, 70 to 47, with Elmore "the Great" Morgenthaler, the Eagles' seven-foot center, notching 20 points in his patented giraffe-like fashion...