Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's Government has employed for some time a public executioner suspected of Communist leanings, one Hussein Jasara. Jubilant after the election, Hussein Jasara proceeded to celebrate in old style Slavic fashion. He danced, drank, was finally shot dead by the gypsy he was brawling with...
Just above the middle line of New Jersey the elm-lined streets of Princeton lay immemorially somnolent. In the buff colonial parallelepiped that is Nassau Hall, the permanent cogs of Princeton University prepared in time-honored fashion to open the college, not particularly exercised over the fact that higher education in the U. S. faced a trying moment, and that Princeton, one of the traditional leaders of U. S. pedagogy, was at a corner in its course through its second century...
...silk industry, to its intense delight, last week found itself suddenly in the midst of a boom. Unlike cotton and woolen men, silk men are much at the mercy of THEM and last week it was gloriously plain that THEY-the fashion designers of Paris, the style buyers and editors from the U. S., and the 40,000,000 U. S. women who wear dresses-had decided on a style change which would require the U. S. silk industry's most diligent services...
...Paris salons and bitterly said so, threatening never to come back. Oh, please come back next summer! begged Vionnet, Lanvin, Patou, Schiaparelli, Chanel, et al., and promised faithfully to have something that would surely start a U. S. fad, a wave of buying under the irresistible pressure of Fashion...
...still alive, aged 75. Who was McCall? James McCall, Scottish tailor who arrived in the U. S. in the 1860's and started a pattern business, never knew there was a magazine named for him. In 1885 his company started publishing monthly an eight-page pamphlet of fashion notes, called The Queen. James McCall died that year. In 1891 the pamphlet was renamed The Queen of Fashion. Three years later it was a 20-page magazine with its first fiction story, result of a $10 prize contest. Thirty years ago it became McCall...