Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer solstice, the year's shortest night, seemed short indeed to the diplomats and Parisian socialites passing the illuminated Vendome column. They pressed into Chez Paquin, where a fashion show and ballet celebrated a fateful meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. The night seemed long to newsmen hanging around Suite 116 at the Hotel Meurice, watching the champagne buckets go by toward the room where Secretary Byrnes was entertaining Minister Molotov. In time the buckets came out empty-but no news came with them. Two U.S. Army privates guarded Byrnes's door, and just to be sure...
...French Fashion. The17th Century was the Golden Age of the enema, or clyster as it was then called. The crude instruments of yesteryear-tubes of bone or wood attached to animal bladders or silk bags-were replaced by a formidable piston-&-cylinder device. An apothecary or doctor's assistant, marching through the streets with a clyster tube on his shoulder (see cut), became a common sight, as a mania for enemas swept France...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 77, dislikes buildings "all dressed up in military fashion, heels together, eyes front. . . ." He makes his houses lie flat on the ground and stretch out. To his followers, the old master is a modern Michelangelo whose sculptures can be lived...
...cinemaddicts who have sat through scores & scores of Hollywood yarns about the man, the wife and the Other Woman may be merely baffled. The actors in Stormy Waters, who behave in a very French but also very human fashion, act as though they had never heard of the standard movie triangle and had no idea that it must be played in a standard...
Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Superman Enterprises and a dozen comic-book publishers had applied to cover the big show, and were turned down; representatives of Air Aces, a bi-monthly pulp comic, and Charm, a fashion slick, were accepted. No group was more peeved at being slighted than the British press, which was given a quota of three newsmen; Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia each had as many. Russia and nine other nations were allowed one each...