Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This flout in the face of fashion was, of course, made by a doctor: Dr. Milton Plotz of Brooklyn's Long Island College of Medicine. In the current American Journal of Diseases of Children he reports the case of a mother with 1) upswept hair and 2)a baby which had had eczema for all but the first two of its ten months of life. Observing that the rash was confined to those parts of the baby which would normally touch its mother's hair, he had a sudden hunch. A test on a clear patch...
...Hilton built his first "mini-max" (maximum hospitality, minimum cost) hotel, and started out to become a Western legend. In Texas horse-trader fashion, he bought and sold more than two dozen hotels, naming most of them after himself, finally built the chain that has brought him an estimated fortune of $28,000,000 and made him one of the ranking men in the U.S. hotel business.* As a hotelman, Hilton has relied heavily on four attributes: 1) tremendous energy (he can get by with four hours' sleep); 2) a shrewd ability to analyze people and pick good employes...
...fashion of William Mount's time (1807-1868) was for grandiose historical paintings, like the great John Trumbull's Revolutionary War murals. But Mount, an innkeeper's son who first learned the technique of oil painting from a sign painter, reacted against the fashion: he painted the things he knew and loved in his native Suffolk County, N.Y.-warm, simple scenes of farm and village life, farmhands, ragged schoolboys, Negro slaves...
...rest met the charges in the same fashion which the cartel reserves for all complaints-a dignified silence. If De Beers was disturbed by the charges of price fixing, control of production, quotas for diamond merchants, etc., it was comforted by the belief that Biddle has no more chance of denting the cartel than of cleaving a diamond with a butter knife...
...week's end, after looking eagerly at things they could not buy, and looking away from things they could not bear, the buyers were quietly desperate. But they may have drawn some comfort from the tailored calm of the attending fashion experts. Declared one woman fashion editor, who refused to be unhorsed by shortages, government, or two-ocean...