Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to the 115-year-old Governor's Mansion, once the home of Maine's most famed statesman, James G. Blainer. Governor Hildreth had his four-point buck resting on the fender of his black limousine. He well knew that he had discharged his duties in a fashion which all true Down-easters would approve: pleasure, but business...
...occupation, and through the explosive tensions of liberation. She had tasted the bitter truth in the words of Lord Grey of Fallodon: "Bad as despotism is, doomed as it is to work its own ruin, the first fruits of its overthrow are not love and liberty." Now, in democratic fashion, France registered her choice for the future...
...Philippines, the first weak steps along the road of reconstruction were taken. In bombed and burned Manila the Rotary Club began its weekly Thursday luncheons. In the Manila Hotel socialites and dressmakers staged the capital's first fashion show and ball since 1941 against a background of charred greystone walls. The Islands' top dressmaker, Ramon Valera, turned out 24 gowns in two weeks (with material at $50 a yard), then collapsed from overwork. The first trickle of civilian goods had arrived from the U.S., tumbling black market prices 50%. And the Islands had shipped their first large load...
...neburg, undeterred by such considerations, the British prosecutors last week rested their cases against Kramer & Co. For reasons and in a fashion totally incomprehensible to the Germans, British defense attorneys then did their human duty...
...Mexican version of the Cuban rumba, but more of a bouncy folk dance. At one point the girl swings away from her partner, does a brief waltz step with a hop and a tap thrown in, while picking up her skirts and swishing them back & forth in flirty fashion. Nobody bothers about a ribbon on the floor, or singing while they dance, as the jarachos...