Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conviction that the world's next important war, no matter how it starts, will end up as a concerted assault by the Capitalist Powers on the Soviet Union. For this reason he threw his whole influence behind a successful move to draft the Five-Year Plan in such fashion that Russia would achieve self-sufficiency first in the realm of munitions and armaments. As Captain Liddell Hart points out, Soviet battle planes-on which Klim pins so much hope -are of 100% Soviet manufacture and the whole effort of the Red War Office is to make it possible...
...Traviata the role of the elder Germont is no test for an actor. But Thomas sang "Di Provenza," the one big aria, in model fashion, moved about the stage surely, easily, appeared properly sympathetic with the emotional frenzies of the consumptive Violetta...
...South at the rate of 500,000 a week and moving north as the frost comes out of the ground. For this purpose he asked Congress for $350,000,000, requested an other $600,000,000 for relief, part of which, to placate Congress, may be used in CWA fashion but not under...
...actress of talent unqualified success. The author is Owen Davis, and his perception of life has not changed much since "Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model." In "Jezebel" he digs out all the old props of Southern melodrama, with the most perfunctory dusting-off, and recombines them in a fashion which the more debased minds might consider "modern." Undoubtedly he had hold of two or three good dramatic ideas when he started, but he ruins them all by psychological flummery. The close of the second scene of the second act, when Jezebel dances and sings in triumph over the death...
...Home: top floor of a six-story apartment house at Fifth Avenue & 108th Street-where Fashion leaves off and Negro Harlem almost begins...