Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taken, in scholarly fashion, from the Greek classical hero Ajax, son of Telamon, who fought with high-helmed valor before Troy...
International frictions, like Paris frocks, run to style. And just as frocks which pursue vogue too breathlessly make ladies stick out in the wrong places, stylish frictions often make nations look silly. Recent fashion in creating conflicts has been to discover an oppressed minority. Last week, as long-smoldering Hungarian-Rumanian feelings suddenly flared up, the style slipped over into the realm of absurdity...
Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, carrying a black knitting bag, arrived in Kansas City to speak on fashion. "I'm knitting for the Finnish soldiers," she explained...
...summons had been unexpected but imperious: "Dear Vag--There has been an ugly bare spot on my dressing table ever since Scotties went out of fashion. Could use your picture to fill it up until I think of something more original. Please try not to look as glum as usual...
...truth-the comforting truth. It has permitted the Premier to explain his course to us confidentially, in a manner that was simple and familiar and by that fact infinitely moving. It has finally permitted Parliament to play its full role. ... In two days there has been confirmed in decisive fashion our national unanimity which is inalienable because it is founded on liberty and the passionate love of country." The whole House rose and roared further proof that the Government must have given a highly satisfactory secret accounting of its stewardship. Air Minister Guy La Chambre's detailed exposition...