Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the roast has been removed and, despite having two plates of soup, catching up with them before the meal is over. Here is Amy Lowell, self-described, at an Advocate smoker, "smuggled into an upper chamber, and kept quiet with cigars while they heckled me in true undergraduate fashion. I think I held my own; I tried to." We may be sure that she did. Here is the sincerity, the generosity, the fearlessness, the humor, and the irrepressible love of fun that made Amy Lowell what she was and remains
Like a fire-engine lolloping home from a blaze, the Landon campaign special last week retired in leisurely fashion from New England whither it had gone for the Maine election (TIME, Sept. 21). First, motoring to Nashua, N. H. to board his train, Alf Landon stopped at the roadside to buy a 25? basket of apples, saying tactfully, "I have heard so much about your New England apples." Ignorantly he picked a basket of handsome Gravensteins thereby causing natives, who think their Mclntoshes tastier, to raise their eyebrows...
...their own fashion the steelmasters were doing their bit to put over what has apparently become a prime policy of Big Business-i. e., to sell itself as such to the U. S. Public. Early in the New Deal, on the theory that the best defense was to attack, Business fell into the habit of concentrating its fire on Franklin D. Roosevelt. Belatedly it realized that to abuse the man who at last count was the most popular figure in the land was not precisely the smartest way to regain public confidence. So Business became ''constructive." meaning that...
Last season fashions in autobiography inclined toward the long, earnest, semiphilosophic reminiscence of foreign correspondents, with such works as Vincent Sheean's Personal History, Walter Duranty's I Write as I Please and Negley Farson's The Way of a Transgressor reaching a best-selling popularity. Now the trend seems to be toward candid memoirs by international ladies of fashion who, after long and hectic careers, found much unhappiness with many husbands in many different countries. The first and most scandalous of these books was Elizabeth Drexel Lehr's "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age, followed...
...trophy for being "the best looking girl on a bicycle." In the three "talent" competitions, rangy Gloria LeVinge ("Miss Birmingham") was one of the three winners. Warned by officials not to drink, smoke or speak to strangers, chaperoned by watchful relatives, the contestants modeled clothes at a fashion show, minced about in 300 expensive evening gowns, heard slinky Arlene Causey, 18 ("Miss Cook County, Ill.."), named the best-looking girl in clothes...