Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should insist upon correcting . . . the fashion of excessive reducing. This weakens the race and also has economic reactions. Another fallacy is that maternity diminishes womanly beauty. Precisely the reverse is true, as you all can testify. I am deeply convinced that our mode of eating, working, dressing, sleeping and our whole system of daily habits ought to be reformed. A word is often better than medicine...
...exotic. He had been impressed by the huge circular earrings affected by Balinese ladies, the costumes of dancing girls, their fans and lavish headgear. His line drawings, particularly one of two dancers called Legong, were graceful and more colorful than his paintings, which had the air of East Indian fashion plates. With pardonable bias, Muralist Diego Rivera, for whom Covarrubias once lugged water jugs in Mexico City, said: "Covarrubias has now reached the age at which a man's face occasionally becomes overcast and in which his work grows in profundity...
...Contralto Maria Gay, an oldtime Carmen, had not been touring the Riviera with her husband, Tenor Giovanni Zenatello, two years ago, if they had not stopped off at the opera house in Montpellier and heard an unknown French girl sing Lucia in true coloratura fashion, U. S. audiences would not be paying fancy prices this season to hear Lily Pons. The Zenatellos brought Lily Pons to Manhattan, got her an audition at the Metropolitan Opera House. Three months after her sensational debut (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931), Lily Pons abruptly left the hotel suite which she and her oldish Dutch husband...
...make a turn is one thing. To tell somebody else how to do it is another. Mr. Proctor has handled his wording in remarkably clear fashion and supplemented with a number of line sketches, illustrating the essential features of all the well-known stops and turns. He has taken the same stand as Schnieder in declaring that he defends no particular technique. The little book was written to teach the fundamentals of practical skiing, and, in the way that Mr. Proctor describes the various styles, it is clear that he is a master-hand at all of them. His book...
...Fogg Museum has on exhibition in Warburg Hall 11 French Romanseque capitals of the twelfth century. They show in incomparable fashion the pure aesthetic excellence of this most significant phase of mediaeval sculpture and are perhaps unequalled as examples of twelfth century sculpture at its purest and best...