Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tousled hair. Ever since he was elected Cleveland's mayor in 1941, Maverick Lausche has spurned "machine" support, winning elections despite organized Democratic opposition. He has heaped such florid oratorical praise on some G.O.P. leaders that they find it awkward later to criticize him in normal partisan fashion. In the 1950 senatorial campaign, Lausche said he "might" vote for Bob Taft instead of the Democratic candidate. By last year the governor had won such popularity as a conservative Democrat that, in defeating Charles P. Taft, the Senator's brother, he topped Adlai Stevenson's vote...
...first, stud and hoop earrings were the fashion; now it is pendants. Manufacturers are taking no chances of missing the next turn of fashion, but they are not worried that earrings will ever go out of style. Reason: 30% of Britain's earring wearers now have pierced ears, v. only 5% two years ago. At that time, Cyril Wilkinson, an ear piercer, appeared on BBC's most popular television program, What's My Line? He told of piercing the ears of the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester. Wilkinson is now piercing...
...Another popularizer, and a very practiced old hand at the game. Will Durant, showed up with The Renaissance, the fifth fat volume of his story of civilization. As usual, Author Will brought down upon himself the buts and ifs of scholars, but did the period up in a sprightly fashion that his critics must secretly envy...
...Fashion Forecast. In London, Reader "J. B." wrote a letter to the Communist Daily Worker condemning workers for wearing trousers, "those symbols of the inequality of women," declared that under Communism, "not only evening dress but trousers too will disappear ... I am already designing a tasteful blanket suitable for both sexes. It [has] no shape...
...departure from due process of law could be used as the justification for imprisoning half a million Americans in concentration campus. I think the FBI now in a position to become the police arm of a McCarthy dictatorship. I think Mr. Hoover is quite capable of operating in this fashion. Despite his denials, Mr. Hoover has been actively engaged in politics since he became director of the FBI in the '20s. He is a power-loving...