Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University Club and moved over to his fixed position on the tenth floor of the nearby Biltmore, the invasion was on. At 10:30 the press was called in. For an hour, as photographers' flash bulbs flared, he answered questions, chain-smoking, gesturing and wriggling in familiar campaign fashion. The most important news for California: 1) that he was going to have breakfast with Governor Warren at the executive mansion in Sacramento; 2) that he was studying the California Presidential primary...
...plush North Michigan Avenue, he has sold hats with everything on them from dish mops to jewels at a minimum price of $37.75, and an alltime high of $1,000 (complete with an emerald and ruby brooch). Last week, suave, dark-eyed Ben wowed the ladies again with a fashion show for Chicago's pet society charity, St. Luke's Hospital. In the solemn spirit of wartime rationing, every Bes-Ben hat was made of kitchen utensils...
...fashion-conscious Air Corps field-tested brass buttons by assigning a set to him to wear. They looked better than bronze, were soon regulation...
...along. He then saw to it that they did so or left his service. First in Britain and then in North Africa, U.S. and British ground, air and naval men have worked, eaten, drunk and fought together as one service, to an extent and in a fashion never dreamed of in World War I. In the heat of combat, U.S. and British field officers go out of their way to criticize themselves, compliment one another on a job well done...
There are also some new characters: Rose, whose face is transformed and whose body sways when swing music as sails her from the factory loudspeakers; Bert Ogmore, the Communist assistant foreman, who is so devout he is practically a Russian; Lord Brixen, the fashion plate, who is a safe second string of the Conservative Party, and four men who are responsible for the functioning of the factory and most of the novel's dramatics: James Cheviot, the general manager; Francis Blandford, his chief engineer; Maurice Angleby, assistant engineer; Bob Elrick, the works superintendent...