Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Crothers has tried so many combinations of the misunderstood wife, the neglected and frigid husband, and the frustrated spinster that she does not get very much intensity into scenes that should be dramatically poignant. Although it is not the fashion to be aroused or wistful, surely the scene where Caine Woodruff, the publisher's wife finds out that she is in the same room with the woman who has enticed her husband, and the parting scenes are too artificially cool...
Outside Rumania King Carol II cuts so sorry a figure that his potency inside Rumania is scarcely realized. Reigning peacock fashion as a Balkan Louis XIV, his favorite aphorism is: "I believe in Destiny...
...record of that award. But Editrix Ilma's story continues: She went around the world, tried to visit her relatives in Abyssinia and to persuade Ras Tafari to appoint her his U. S. agent. Disorder in Palestine prevented. Home again Miss Ilma edited a pulp magazine, wrote fashion news in Cleveland, department store advertising in Manhattan; acted in Floyd Dell's Cloudy with Showers, learned acrobatic dancing, raised $10,000 for her magazine from Mrs. Thomas Lamont, Julian Huxley, any of her friends who would contribute, went to Chicago and got further backing from a printer. She smokes...
...Manchurian invaders. Last week several thousand Chinese soldiers, armed chiefly with old-style rifles, were ordered to defend Shanhaikwan against the simultaneous assaults of Japanese artillery (19 pieces), Japanese whippet tanks, Japanese machine gun crews, Japanese bombing planes (seven) and Japanese destroyers (two) which fired in high, wide, erratic fashion from their anchorage six miles away in the Gulf of Liaotung opposite famed Port Arthur. Considered purely as butchery, the three-day battle was a little classic...
...five minutes of two the cast of Of Thee I Sing . . . was foregathering backstage in normal and unexcited fashion. Five minutes later there was confusion and dismay...