Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paris hotels were all more nearly full than at any time since 1929. Best rooms were taken, but rooms of sorts were still available to late comers, and the Government were rigidly keeping prices reasonable. Since Paris is the capital of fashion, females from all over the world are now swarming daily into the Exposition's Pavilion d'Elégance, but most of the great French creators of style are a match for them. Never accustomed hitherto to showing their latest models to the vulgar public, they have created for the Exposition dresses too breathtakingly extreme, fantastic...
...worn smooth. The pavements were wet. Suddenly the car skidded, slid, spun around, knocked down a telephone pole, ripped out 15 ft. of wire fence and came to a sickening stop in the ditch. Dr. Walker was hurled from her seat with such force that she was jammed jackknife fashion 25 in. through a 15-in. opening in the door...
...Memphis, Tenn., Farmer Paul Schenk went into his barnyard and found his herd of goats playing shoot-the-chutes down the back of his new streamlined auto. Follow-the-leader fashion they leaped to the hood, then to the roof, slid down the back; had evidently been playing the game all night...
...press with some tax questions of their own. Republican Representative Hamilton Fish went so far as to ask questions about two of his constituents. Did Squire Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Hyde Park,* did Squire Henry Morgenthau of Fishkill, report their gentlemen-farming costs as business expenses in the "unethical" fashion in which other rich men treated racing stables, chicken farms, and yachts? Mrs. Roosevelt took notice of the question raised by Columnist David Lawrence- whether having checks for her radio performances turned over directly to charity was a form of tax avoidance (TIME, June 14). Without directly answering his question...
...rains on Commencement Day next Thursday, the University will be ready to move the ceremonies into Sanders Theatre. This will mean cutting down the number of people admitted somewhat in the following fashion...