Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany is to make sure that "these people" do try to drive this car, and to promote in them a desire to drive it, with or without accidents . . . And if we are going to make them accept democracy, we will have to "coerce" them to accept it, Hitler fashion, for to date they laugh at our methods of presentation...
Harlow Shapley and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., two lifelong liberals and strong advocates of intellectual freedom, managed to come to grips over the weekend in a fashion which was admirably calculated to throw both a confusing and misleading light on the matter in question--the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in New York...
...style "exquisitely perfect in accent"; some of it he compared to The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Said the Nation's Diana Trilling: "The most important new novelist in the English language to appear in years." All the critics did not go overboard in this headlong fashion, but many agreed that here was a new talent...
...productions too often leave one with memories of fashion on the promenade and little else. But Thursday night's performance of Richard Strauss' "Salome" was a very different story, and a very wonderful one. Singers and orchestra combined under Fritz Reiner's direction to give a really superb reading of Strauss' score and incidentally proved that "Salome" is an unusually fine opera which deserves far better treatment than the austere neglect it received until the Met's revival last month...
...hundreds of companies that make a living out of novelty hats, the fashion whims of the U.S. moppet mean the difference between feast & famine. Success in this fast-moving, heads-up business is often a fluke. But last week Ben Molin and Joe Rosenbaum, owners of Brooklyn's Benay-Albee Novelty Co., thought they had it down to a pseudoscience, something like phrenology...