Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second condition relates to the external obligations of Germany. So long as these obligations, both private and public, are such as to involve either a continuous increase in snowball fashion of the foreign debt of Germany or, alternatively, a disproportion between her exports and imports on such a scale as to threaten economic prosperity of other countries, prospective investors are unlikely to regard the situation as stable...
...final and most disastrous escapade is a trip to Lisbon. Here one of the aviators jumps into a bull ring and is gored to death by the bull. Another shoots a disagreeable reporter and runs away after the shooting. A third, accidentally hit by a bullet, expires in theatrical fashion, seated in a horse-cab. The fourth aviator (Richard Barthelmess) is left with Nikki...
...first volume of the novel fails to make Clyde Griffiths excitingly alive, "unless the spectator remembers the novel well enough to fill in the gaps. Titles, gloomily printed on a background of waves, interrupt the action more than they elucidate it. Phillips Holmes plays Clyde Griffiths in perfunctory fashion. He experiences every human emotion without varying his expression except by a toothy smile. At moments the picture transcends this and other handicaps and really comes to life. Walking with another girl, Roberta Alden passes Clyde Griffiths and says, "Don't look back. Don't look back," and then looks back...
Also announcing style trends last week was Amos Parrish, unique style forecaster for U. S. and Canadian retail buyers and merchandisers. To his seventh Fashion Merchandising Clinic in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre went 100 store buyers, advertising and sales managers. "More lady-like than ever-and certainly gay," said Amos Parrish last week. "Women will look taller this fall. . . . And of course they will not be wearing their hats on the backs of their heads. Fashion is now tilting her hat forward over the right eye." Alert, keen, Forecaster Parrish senses style trends like a hound after a badger...
...Bust Trust," or Associated Apparel Industries, Inc. (corsets, brassieres, girdles, underwear) lost $132,000 against profits of $632,000 for six months ending May 31, despite a favorable trend in figure fashion...