Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tenants reacted to all this in the patternless fashion of men making the last clutch at the lifeboat. Some cried that the whole thing was a huge bluff-an apartment owner must prove he is losing money before getting OPA permission to evict a paying tenant. Others argued that no law can keep a man in business if he wants to quit...
...kidnapping scare swept Mexico City. Rumormongers said that Mexican ninos were being stolen wholesale and sold to wives of returning U.S. soldiers. In some unexplained fashion, the patter of little brown feet was supposed to make the returning husbands happy. Sober El Universal suspected a "premeditated effort to provoke state collective unrest." Many fingers pointed at Acción National and other anti-administration, anti-U.S. groups...
...beachheads of the postwar world, another educational landing craft was launched last week, with a squab-and-champagne party in Los Angeles (total expenses for two days' entertainment: $20,000). The craft: a new four-year course in fashion design and merchandising, at big, businesslike University of California at Los Angeles...
Sixty sleek coed models-and five unhappy male freshmen-paraded new styles in an opening campus fashion show. California Apparel Creators (a promotion group of 400 designer-manufacturers) paid the bill...
...coeds and three men enrolled to date, who will be eligible for Bachelor of Science degrees, must divide their time among such studies as marketing, fabric design, fashion showmanship, as well as such less fashionable subjects as languages, history and science...