Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When terse, provocative Benito Mussolini feels that someone in authority should ramble on to the Italian people in soothing, fireside-chat fashion, Il Duce is apt to set his Foreign Minister and son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, a-chatting. In Rome last week the Chamber of Fasci & Corporations convened, Mussolini sitting quietly amid his newly revamped Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 13), and the Count talked for an hour and 53 minutes, mainly about how World War II began and why Italy is jolly well staying...
...stenographers who ordinarily record the minutes of all sessions, and everyone in the galleries except the peers, who included His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. On the floor of the grossly overcrowded House, which has seats for only 476 of its 615 members, scores of M.P.s squatted tailor-fashion. To eat during the secret session, which lasted more than seven hours, many had bought for sixpence each what were offered in the refreshment rooms as "Secret Sandwiches for Secret Sessions." These contained "macon"-the British wartime substitute for bacon-smoked mutton...
...gold-sequined gown, her hair swept up, her feet in spun-glass slippers, Marva Trotter Louis, wife of Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, officiated at the coronation of St. Louis' Negro society king and queen. Introduced as "leader of Chicago society . . . America's premier lady of fashion," Mrs. Louis was accompanied by a local physician, who informed all, "I am a personal friend of Joe Louis." Interviewed by newshawks, Mrs. Louis said of her husband: "He never gets rowdy in the home. I sure wish I had his poise and calm...
...game has to offer. An unusual number of great squash players will be under the same roof at the same time, competing in one of the outstanding team matches in years. Jack Barnaby is carrying on the Harry Cowles tradition of the squash at Harvard in on admirable fashion. He has a young team which will give a good and on entertaining account of itself tomorrow afternoon
Contents were snob-appeal who-was-seen-with-whom-where-when articles and pictures, fashion gossip, etc., and a calendar listing events in Eastern cities...