Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important face was missing from the picture: the stern, lined face of George Catlett Marshall (departing Under Secretary Robert Lovett stood in for him). Truman had already taken his leave of Marshall, in characteristic fashion. Ducking out from the White House after lunch one day last week, he flew down to Pinehurst, N.C. for a chatty visit with Marshall, who did not know he was coming. "I needed to see the Secretary of State," said the President, "so I went...
...handle alone. She therefore decided to transfer the administration to the Library of Congress, where she built a chamber music auditorium, Coolidge Hall. To it she added the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, the greatest institution of music patronage in the world. On establishing the Foundation, Mrs. Coolidge wrote, "Fashion is an enemy to art, I think, and if we aim at a musical center which shall be as respectively national as the Library... it would be an easy matter to explain the emission of the society element. I have wished to make possible... the composition and performance of music...
Weir is not necessarily on the way out, but the homeopaths' prestige in Britain is. Except for the foothold at the palace, homeopathy is pretty much out of fashion. Other doctors no longer bother to keep up the tradition against fraternizing -chiefly because they feel that homeopaths no longer threaten their medical power...
...catch is that the wicked husband is paralyzed from the waist down, and thinks up his villainies in a wheelchair. No hero can sock a man in a wheelchair; no heroine can divorce him. How to get rid of him? Whiplash solves the problem in characteristically brisk and brutal fashion by having him mashed to a pulp, wheelchair & all, by a taxi...
...passes without the usual bales of half-baked legislation. The "Republican hiatus" represents nothing more reactionary than a pause to think--but thinking seems to be out of style when government is conducted on sales slogans--"New Deal," "fair deal," "gluttons of privilege,"--political programs retailed in the same fashion as cigarettes and soap. Richard E. Platt...