Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finest, most digestable port. True these vibrant moments when they happen to be historical as well are seldom correct, but who really cares. It is just as pleasant to dwell upon the imagined death of Danton as it is to come to grips with the real fashion in which he fled this vale of tears. It is a particularly moving picture, that of the squat unheroic figure standing at the guillotine staring off over the sweating Paris crowd murmuring to himself-'Then I shall never see my well beloved wife again," and then remembering, "no weakness Danton, Danton no weakness...
Most people know about the Mills Brothers now because they perform over the radio twice a week for Vapex. They sing in trick quartet fashion and when it pleases them they can simulate perfectly a tuba, a trumpet and a pair of saxophones. Their voices, unaided, are too small for vaudeville. But they use their radio technique, huddle around an amplifier-microphone...
Last week President & Mrs. Hoover held the fifth and largest of the White House winter receptions. Present were officials of the Treasury, Post Office, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor Departments. Mrs. Hoover appeared wearing a white and blue dimity gown modeled in the fashion of 1870 and copied from one of her mother's photographs. 41, President Hoover busied himself with his anti-hoarding campaign (see below). ¶ Entertained at a White House dinner was Speaker of the House John Nance Garner uncomfortable in a new dress suit, together with Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, William Wallace Atterbury, Melvin...
...keep Yale rooters in their proper role of subjection, Coach Stubbs' skaters must win in no uncertain fashion as the Yale sextet has polished off the Hanoverians on three occasions this season 13 to 4, 4 to 3, and 7 to 4. Another team to assert its superiority over the visitors is Princeton. The Tigers put on one of their best performances in a 4 to 0 victory...
...between nonchalance and sentiment. They differ from, quite as much as they resemble, the clickings of Ogden Nash or the bickerings of Dorothy Parker. Advertising experience flashes out in catchy titles ("No Traffic Tower to Guide Her," "Quake Well Before Losing"). The Macy influence is plainly visible in "The Fashion Copywriter Turns Nature Lover...