Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be controlled, has been returned to the realm of theory by the realization that the government did not intend to start it. In retrospect, it is difficult to see what positive dangers existed of sufficient magnitude to lead the Treasury's chief adviser to resign in such spectacular fashion...
Such was some of the advice given the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America last week on 1934 styles in a 40-page booklet prepared by its Fashion Committee. The Association, joined by the Merchant Tailor Designers Association, settled down for a four-day annual convention at the Palmer House in Chicago to consider them. In the mezzanine were such exhibits as knickerslacks and directors' suits. In the Grand Ballroom were lively discussions of the color of waistcoats, the cut of coat tails. Haughtily ignoring the ready-to-wear industry which actually controls mass styles, the tailors recommended...
Sponsor of these and many another innovation in men's clothes is dapper Ray mond Godfrey Twyeffort, chairman of the Fashion Committee. He was conspicuous at the convention in a large-checked rope-shouldered suit of grey and red, with flaming red handkerchief, white spats and chamois gloves. (He kept the left one on.) He has no sympathy for men who do not believe in color. Cried he: "Color will bring back prosperity...
Among the lost arts is that of writing verse in "heroic couplets." Though the 18th Century thought it the only wear for poets, it has since dropped completely out of fashion, is now never used as a serious poetic form. For the English, especially, it still has a half-humorous academic charm. Author Laver, onetime winner of Oxford's Newdigate Poetry Prize, comports himself with fair grace in these borrowed 18th Century garments but never rises to the level of Pope's elegance or acid...
...Yale-Harvard varsity one-mile relay race. The Crimson quartet of Locke, Dorman, White and Captain Morse ran smoothly, in the time of 3 min. 28 2-5 seconds and were not once headed. Moreover the Freshman Mile Relay team smothered a Yale Freshman quartet in most efficient fashion and their time for the distance was 3 min. 36 4-5 seconds. However the Two Mile relay team of crack middle distance runners in the Intercollegiate Varsity race over this distance was nosed out at the finish by a quartet from Maine, though the defeat was in some sense...