Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After tallying the votes of some 1,000 fashion experts, the New York Dress Institute gravely announced the names of the world's best-dressed women. No. 1 spot was taken over by Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of Columbia Broadcasting System's board chairman and one of the three glamorous daughters of the late great Surgeon Harvey Gushing. The Duchess of Windsor, who has been at or near the head of every list for the last 15 years, slipped clear down to a tie for tenth place with Musicomedienne Mary Martin. Among the other ten best-dressers...
...than his English opposite number; but he often lacks background information, and is liable to be much weaker in his awareness of the cultural context of a literary work . . . Further, the American student is often allowed to collect his 'hours' of English courses in a quite arbitrary fashion, and may get his degree on the basis of a course in Donne, a course in Elizabethan stagecraft, a course in Yeats and Eliot, a course in Joyce, a course in the modern American novel, and some courses in 'creative writing' - having read nothing of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton...
Nowadays the Count's crew has most of its riffs written out for it. Nevertheless, old favorites such as One O'Clock Jump sound pretty much the way they used to. All he had to do to bring them up to post-bop fashion, says the Count, was "to put mink coats on the chords...
Manhattan's Carolyn Schnurer is a fashion designer who gets her best ideas abroad, but not from the salons of other designers. Every year she travels to such far-off places as Haiti. South Africa and Japan to see what native styles and costumes she can adapt for American natives, especially as sports clothes. In ten years of such globetrotting, Carolyn Schnurer has built a big reputation-and a $7,000,000 annual business...
Last week the latest catches of Fashion-Hunter Schnurer-the results of a three-week trip to Turkey last summer-went on sale in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Priced from $14.95 to $65, her 1954 line of winter resort clothes includes simple but smartly styled bathing suits, jackets, blouses and dresses decorated with tar-booshed figures and such Turkish zigzags as designs copied from the ceremonial rug of a Turkish emir and from wrought-iron grillwork that she spotted in Istanbul...