Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Abdullah (as the British call him) went to see Colonel T. E. Lawrence in 1916 about the Arab war against the Turks, the canny Colonel sized him up as follows: "I began to suspect him of a constant cheerfulness. ... He jested with all comers in most easy fashion: yet, when we fell into serious talk, the veil of humor seemed to fade away as he chose his words, and argued shrewdly. ... As our conversation continued, I became more and more sure that Abdullah was too balanced, too cool, too humorous to be a prophet. . . . His value would come, perhaps...
...last week's blizzard, these abstractions looked like good clean lunatic fun. But the people who went there on purpose could point out that the simplified cubes and planes of this unrealistic art have influenced nearly every type of modern decoration, from typography, magazine layout, window display and fashion design to streamlining and modern architecture...
...church protested against the use of prayer as propaganda. If any man or woman believes in God and in prayer and is convinced by his conscience that the passage of the Lend-Lease Bill would constitute a calamity to the human race, let him use prayer in legitimate fashion and take his problem to the throne of grace in secret behind closed doors. Possibly God may reward him openly. ... It is not good for religion, it is not good for the nation, it is not good for any cause to have prayer degraded into an instrument of publicity...
...late ace taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley on an expedition into East Africa to paint museum backdrops. Today, hale and high (6 ft. 2 in.) at 74, he lives comfortably in a trophy-laden Manhattan studio, helps his wife, Ethel Traphagen, collect costumes for the Traphagen School of Fashion, which she owns...
...monocle-wearing 1st Marquess of Willingdon, super-dignified Governor General of Canada (1926-31) and Viceroy of India (1931-36), is just about the last Briton anyone would expect to organize a fashion show. But the Marquess recently returned from an exploratory trade mission in South America and it so happens that beauteous, tawny-toned Miss Rosemary Chance, who models clothes for swishy London photographers, is the Marquess' niece. Last week under his august sponsorship, and with the active cooperation of Their Majesties, Miss Chance and 17 other 100% British mannequins prepared to sail on a fashion tour...