Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beneath sunny Bermuda skies, the ornate coach and two trundled out on the field while the six competing teams stood in Olympiad fashion along the edge of the playing surface. The coach door opened and his Honor the Acting Governor William Addis struggled out and mounted the stands to his official box. The crowd was hushed as the Governor spoke. "I now open Rugby Week," he said. The crowd thought briefly of the half crown admission price and then cheered good naturedly. Two teams surged onto the turf. Rugby Week in Bermuda had indeed begun, and for pomp and parties...
Though he had asked for a two-year extension and a stiffening of federal rent control, Truman hailed the new, 15-month local option bill as a triumph of "the joint efforts of the Congress and the Administration." The National Association of Real Estate Boards, in equally strange fashion, publicly praised the new rent law though they had privately complained to the President against it. The C.I.O., to confound the confusion, called the rent law "counter to the wishes of the people as expressed by President Truman . . ." The C.I.O. apparently hadn't got the word yet; at the moment...
...during the next half dozen years. Gentleman Jimmy was forever darting away from his post in the peak-of-prosperity days-to Florida or Europe or simply to the fights. New York didn't seem to mind. Jimmy was the cock o' the walk, a witty, debonair, fashion-plate Irishman who could charm a bird down out of a tree. "Mr. New York," they called him, and the Big Town "wore [him] in its lapel" like a carnation (as one wit cracked), and threw him away when the Big Party of the '20s was over...
...sseldorf, the Ruhr's money and fashion capital, is drab and desolate. But by night, scrap dealers and black marketeers crowd into such slick cellar restaurants as the Goldene Treppe (Golden Staircase), where they dine on smoked salmon and duck at $12 a meal, and into such cafés as the Allotria (Tomfoolery), where they jitterbug to Bel Mir Bist Du Schön with heavily rouged hostesses known in Germany as Animierdamen-"animation ladies...
...defiant glint in the eye, dared Goldstein to do his worst. Said Dr. Paul A. Kennedy, assistant superintendent of schools: "I see he's going to pick our books for us! He is not ... We're just going to continue in our regular, slow, somewhat dumb schoolteacher fashion to do the best we can for the children...