Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were booths and sideshows on Cambridge Common; one of these in 1797 featured a talking elephant that was reputed also to be able to drink thirty bottles of porter at a sitting. The visitors and the graduating seniors came in the height of the day's fashion--embroidered waistcoats, peach-blossom coats, and powdered wigs--,and one elderly lady sat up all night in her elbow chair before the 1758 Commencement in order not to disturb the arrangement of her hair...
...legitimate theaters are the heartland of the U.S. stage. Its rich and haughty cosmetic queens determine the type of cream with which millions of women grease their faces before retiring; its beauty salons force them to cut their hair. Its Hattie Carnegies and Nettie Rosensteins dictate fashion; its $2 billion garment industry makes 80% of all U.S. women's dresses...
...exciting place for parades, block parties, silk hats, first nights, and baseball games. Some of its sidewalks sparkle (because of mica in the concrete). Its cab drivers, individualists all, deliver wild, cheerful or threatening monologues on world affairs. Its well-barbered women worship fashion; they shop like stalking tigresses, dress like lady spies and walk with a provocative...
...mutual. Mike Cowles found that his bride had so many ideas for Look that he put her to work on it. She knew little about magazine editing but she knew what she liked-and thought other women would too. She added sections for women, tied in the covers to fashion features, saw that every issue had "female appeal." Look began capturing women readers. "Before," says Fleur, "it was bought by two million men, and women read it sort of by inheritance...
...along with Avery only by speaking his mind. That worked until recently. Then the showdown came. It was stirred up by aging (now 74) Mr. Avery, who had a scunner on two of Ward's eight vice presidents. Avery decided to settle the matter in his usual fashion: he wanted President Norton to fire them. Norton roared: no. When Avery roared back, Norton handed in his resignation. Within 48 hours the eight vice presidents did the same. (Vice president in charge of personnel and public relations, Lawrence A. Appley, had another job all set. On July i, he will...