Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like so much featherbrained Paris fun which leads on to the fashion, the mode started with a Mae West Party given on the platform restaurant of the Eiffel Tower by Mrs. (not Mme.J Denys Trefusis. She is by birth one of those Keppels who keep up the tone of British aristocracy. Despite, or perhaps because of, their proud Dutch blood, the Keppels produced two grooms-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, an extra equerry to King Edward and a Master of the Household for King George -not to mention Mrs. Trefusis. To her Mae West party went the Prince of Wales...
...scarlet. As German Air Minister he affects a topcoat with unique and striking white lapels. He delights in the clucks and murmurs of the masses when he appears in a rakish wild-leder (doeskin) cloak, fastened at the neck with a single clasp. Last week he set the fashion in which Germans condemned to Death will be executed...
...Another son, George M. Moffett, followed his father's colleague, bewhiskered E. T. Bedford who quit Standard Oil, founded Corn Products, ruled it Standard Oil fashion until he died in 1931. Today George M. Moffett is president of Corn Products...
...Aged 83, the King's hoary uncle H. R. H. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn. kept a public engagement by opening in thoroughgoing fashion the new $5,000,000 headquarters of English freemasonry in London as the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge...
Other things are going on here, too. The agricultural adjustment administration is telling the farmera that they can't run their own farms, and trying to make them like it. Secretary of the Interior lckes is spending $3,300,000 and doing it in a fashion that seems niggardly to the honest pork-barrel politicians. It must be paid back, says lckes, and he is from Missouri about this paying back. Cities and states must show him. A splendid row of proposed post offices, reaching from here to Siberia, is being drastically reduced. Nothing...