Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...format has been designed by the Crimson Printing Company after extensive research on the subject. Newspapers all over the country have been polled to determine what is the latest fashion in the typographical world...
After a luncheon at Washington's swank Shoreham Hotel was held a charity fashion show. Its principals and onlookers were socialites, debutantes, Congressional wives. Among the mannequins were two Senators' wives, Florida's Mrs. Claude Pepper, Kentucky's Mrs. "Happy" Chandler. Name of the show: Gilding the Lily for Glamorous Days and Nights...
Here, sighed the Vagabond to himself, if surely a small bit of France transplanted to American soil. He gazed about him wonderingly. He had just emerged from the auditorium of the Geographical Institute where a militaristic French movie and a super-patriotic news reel--both entertaining after a fashion--had been shown. Through the doors poured dual streams of middle-aged Cambridge matrons, Mutt-and--Jeff pairs of Radcliffe girls, a sprinkling of Brattle Street subdebs, some dapper, be-mustached French instructors, and a handful of Harvard men. The latter seemed like some of Thurber's male animals...
...manner a very orthodox group of stage people through the intricate contortions of a melodrama to end all melodramas. Bank robbers, policemen, governors, midgets, and fascinatingly naive young ladies put themselves completely in the hands of the Tavern's unidentified guest, and he has them caper about in the fashion most likely to please his laughing audience--and with no other evident intent...
Betsy got most of her education in a New Jersey convent (she is not a Catholic), where she edited the school magazine. At 18 she got a job as assistant fashion editor of Charm, held it for seven years, later did promotion for children's clothes. Twice married, she is now the wife of Lawyer James Madison Blackwell, has a young son (James Madison IV) known as Judge...