Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing; the metropolitan papers, with inducements of higher pay for the present and possible fame and high position for the future, have in a sense sucked the life-blood from their journalistic brethren. This is raising the standards of the profession, but doing it in a one-sided fashion. The effect of the Nieman Fellowships will never be glaringly evident, whether good or bad, but there is plenty of room to question its present value to the American press...
When the editorial referred to "a new fashion called the democratic process." Professor Taylor recalled the dictum of former French premier Laval that "Democracy is dead the world over." He hoped that the isolationists would face the decision of the majority of Americans in the spirit of democracy. He declared that the "extreme isolation argument" had been fully heard in Congress, on the radio, and in the press...
Under the impression that the election was over, citizens of the U. S. last week prepared to give their ears a rest, prop up their feet, pay overdue attention to comic strips, football scores, fashion advertisements. But another campaign was on. A great shout was heard from leaders in both parties: "Unity!" Blared on the radio, blazoned in headlines were appeals, some frantic, some cool-praying that the U. S. should unite behind the President in order that the perils of the future be met in strength. "Good losers'' clubs were formed, meetings were held, petitions urging this...
Divorced. Novelist Ernest Hemingway, by his second wife, the former Pauline Pfeiffer, onetime fashion writer, who married him in Paris 13 years ago. Uncontested decree awarded custody of the two Hemingway children, Patrick and Gregory, to his wife...
...school children's straight-arm salute to their flag and Nazis' salute to their Führer. Last week New York City's School Superintendent Harold George Campbell put a stop to arm raising, directed pupils to salute by holding their fingers at their forehead, soldier-fashion...