Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this oblique fashion was announced the biggest news emanating from Washington in many a week. It meant that Franklin Roosevelt, after four months' stubborn insistence on his original plan for enlarging the Court, was at last willing to compromise...
...have frequently been at odds for centuries. Van Zeeland is acute enough to realize that the two little countries must work together for their own good. In this he has been loyally backed by his King. Young Leopold has hired a Dutch nurse for his motherless children, setting a fashion among Brussels' smart set. Netherlanders are great colonial administrators, lately have been welcomed as colonizers in developing the Belgian Congo...
...Paris (Paramount) mine the photographically rich vein of winter sports which, extensively explored by European producers, has heretofore been neglected by Hollywood. On her first trip abroad, in flight from a tedious suitor in New York, Fashion Designer Kay Denham (Claudette Colbert) picks up two personable Americans in a Paris bar. One is Gene Anders (Robert Young) who hoping to gratify his inclination for casual romance, suggests a trip to Switzerland. The other is his friend George Potter (Melvyn Douglas) who, also in love with Kay and aware that Gene already has a wife, joins the junket as chaperon...
...discovery about the drop in temperature between the surface and outlying atmosphere of the sun, was made in wholly accidental fashion, it was reported by Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astrophysics, who with others, was responsible for the work...
...breakfasts, put on broadcast after dull broadcast, dug up nonagenarian policyholders as living testimonials, prodded museums and universities to feature the memorabilia of insurance, inspired sermons on the "economic, moral and social values ,of life insurance to the individual and the nation," sponsored teas, dances, dinners, lectures, concerts, fashion shows...