Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maria Jeritza and Tenor Beniamino Gigli, both out of the Metropolitan this year, were two names connected with it. Richard Strauss, the story went, would be one of its conductors, Fritz Reiner another. Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch and Robert Edmond Jones would stage its productions in up-to-date fashion. Youthful members of Society would be called upon for support instead of the staid and settled folk who sit in the boxes at the Metropolitan Opera House. Would this be the opera company to establish itself in Rockefeller Center? That was the question which no one would answer. But everyone...
...which grew larger every minute. The police telephoned a request. They could not restore order, they said, unless Herr Hitler would show himself. He refused to come out. Again the police telephoned. Finally, amid plaudits worthy of an emperor, the Nazi Chief appeared on a balcony, saluted in Fascist fashion, turned smartly about and marched indoors. The crowds, satisfied after their brief glimpse of Adolf Hitler's brown Charlie Chaplin mustache, dispersed cheering...
...Ingres, built on the site of an ancient convent, which Artist Boutet de Monvel has redecorated in a style which Artist Ingres would have liked to afford. Artist Boutet de Monvel lives amid beautiful women. Rich ones sit to him for their portraits, poor ones are models for the fashion plates he draws for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Gazette de Bon Ton. Always impeccably dressed in public, he is sufficiently bohemian to paint in a blue-&-black striped blazer and patent leather pumps. He is fond of gold cigaret cases and dark red carnations with evening clothes...
...Guide is intended "to tell the home the sort of things the school wants it to know." The first issue offers an article on cold-prevention, a directory of current after-school entertainment, an explanation of how best to conduct a child through the Metropolitan Museum of Art. juvenile fashion notes, "Education via Toys...
...daughter, while being elected Governor. Then the motorcade rushed on, special reason for its speed being that Gus Generich, one of the bodyguards, had to get in town to vote. Meantime throughout the length & breadth of the land, some 40,000,000 citizens were proceeding in quiet, orderly fashion to cast their ballots in the memorable Depression election of 1932. That most of them were marking "Roosevelt" instead of "Hoover" the former had at no time any doubt, but it is not likely that he or his most sanguine supporter had any idea of the completeness with which the country...