Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke. Last week, after three winters of wartime underdressing, U.S. partygoers were back in evening clothes. In Manhattan, Broadway first-nighters showed up in dinner jackets and long dresses. Fifth Avenue seethed: Adrian's plaid taffeta with a bustle back was the sensation of Bonwit Teller's fashion show titled "I'm Dressing for my Darling"; Saks offered a beaded wool evening cloak ($139); the Tailored Woman recommended a shower of ostrich plumes on violet crepe. Lord & Taylor bought full-page ads, burbled: "Tonight-fabulous word once more. Now that we're dressing for it . . . once...
Taking up for herself, Actress Sheridan went even farther, offered to "fight boy fashion, no holds barred," with anybody who thought she had dogged it. In a letter to Roundup's editor, she claimed that her tour was made at considerable personal sacrifice, added: "I'm wondering if your wife, sweetheart or sister has bucket-seated her way 60,000 miles . . . at better than a thousand miles a day, playing even two bad shows, eating C-or K-rations more often than hot groceries, much of it standing up, and then when it's littler girl...
...Texan uses a full, natural swing (it appears less than a full swing only because he brings his hands back high above his right ear) and drives an average 265 yards straight down the middle. But his magic touch lies with the irons. He regulates his swing in clocklike fashion, using the same amount of punch each time, getting different distance by lengthening or shortening his backswing. Once he knows the range, he can drop ball after ball dead on the pin. (He could equip a caddy with a baseball glove and pitch iron shots to him on the first...
...have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses, riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out out of mind . . . I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion...
...Bulgarians] want to be treated as a cobelligerent, but so far as Great Britain is concerned they must work their passage for a long time and in no uncertain fashion before we can accord them a special status, in view of the injuries our Allies in Greece and Yugoslavia sustained at their hands. Meanwhile, let them march and destroy all the Germans they can find in enemy lands. We do not want them in the lands of the Allies...