Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounded like they were always tuning up." And the critics gave the First a glacial reception. Said the Daily Herald: "Except at the dentist's, I don't remember a longer 35 minutes." The Times, which didn't like it at all, summed up in deadpan fashion: "It contained some loud and soft, quick and slow sounds." The Daily Mail's advice: "the cobbler should stick to his last...
...ring, he annoys foes with a shuffling, eccentric style that is really no style at all. He is apt to turn on his heel and walk away, drop his gloves or scramble crab-fashion to left & right. When Joe Louis tried recently to hire one of Walcott's old handlers to study Walcott's style, one of Jersey Joe's sparring mates burst out laughing at the idea. He explained: "Why, I've fought a hundred rounds with Walcott and know less about his style now than when I started...
...Grand Tour was under way again-that great annual pilgrimage which almost since the Revolution has led Americans back to Europe at the command of fashion, war or undefined nostalgia. Well over 200,000 Americans were expected to go to Europe this summer, nearly on a par with the best prewar years, and as many as the reduced Atlantic fleet could carry. Ships of all sizes and registries were booked to capacity, and on the vastly expanded airlines space was going fast. Europe feverishly offered up its beauties in exchange for dollars, announced special rations to keep well-fed Americans...
...days later Miss France cinched the title when she met and defeated the belated Miss Italy and an ersatz Miss Austria whipped up at the last minute from a Paris fashion house. Miss Italy walked off with a consolation prize: a gallant proposal of marriage from her indignant impresario. She accepted...
...Harvard's nice in the summer, but Yale is better in the winter," was a representative declaration at the end of last year's eight-week course. Fashion reactions, heretofore, have also been exzemic...