Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prophecy had been of riots, bloodshed, even civil war. Instead, like a damp firecracker, there had been nothing. Under the hot sun of the southern summer, Argentines, some 3,000,000 of them, had gone to the polls in orderly fashion; 250,000 soldiers, sailors and police stood guard to guarantee the Army's pledge of a free and honest Presidential election...
...Chungking office, floodlights flanked a wooden desk. One after another, in businesslike fashion, three soldiers sat down at the desk and signed a document. The three soldiers were U.S. General of the Army George C. Marshall, in blouse and pinks; Chinese Government General Chang Chih-chung, in dress uniform; Communist General Chou Enlai, in a sober blue business suit. The document, which might be a turning point in Chinese politics, was an agreement for fusion and reorganization of the Government and Communist Armies...
...Winston Churchill and daughter Sarah got an eyeful of styles at a Miami Beach fashion show, and gave a reporter a small earful about Churchill style ideas. Mrs. Churchill likes simplicity generally, but plenty of color in the tropics, and long evening gowns-and she likes "hair that looks like-hair." Said daughter Sarah of father Winston's tastes in women's wear: "Oh, he takes violent likes and dislikes to things." Mrs. Churchill-in a blue-&-white dress, her white hair bound in a brightly flowered kerchief-elaborated authoritatively: "He really prefers just plain black or white...
...clear and detached fashion, F.D.R. told his own case history...
Ginger Rogers and five other clotheshorses were touted by Fashion Designer Ray Driscoll as his favorites for the backhanded title: Hollywood's Worst-Dressed Women. Proclaimed Driscoll: Ginger "doesn't dress." Betty Hutton "wears too much of everything." Joan Leslie "tries to dress like a teen-ager." Judy Garland "dresses like a tired clubwoman." Betty Grable wears clothes "too tight and too short...