Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consistently behind Mendès' policies in spite of its refusal to join his Cabinet. In Le Troquers place the Deputies elected Pierre Schneiter of the Roman Catholic M.R.P. Though Schneiter, a Resistance hero and mayor of Reims, is personally not hostile to Mendès in the fashion of Mendès-hating M.R.P.er Georges Bidault and his followers, the election was everywhere understood as a rebuff to the Premier. "The sole of the boot was for Le Troquer," rejoiced one anti-Mendès Deputy, "but the heel was for Mend...
...more curvesome ornaments of Germany's silver screen. The international film Almanac of 1931 listed her as a "young lover" type, and that same year blonde Baroness Daisy earned still another title: Miss Germany. Sought after by the great and powerful in the twin worlds of Art and Fashion, Daisy in 1932 gave up her own career to marry a wealthy and successful young diplomat named Oskar Schlitter...
...piney woods of East Texas, deer hunting is a way of life. The natives, hard, stern men, pursue deer after their own local, brutal fashion, behind powerful, lop-eared hounds. "Five, ten miles ain't no area for a big deer to carry the dogs," drawls R. C. Pace, former sheriff of Jasper County. "Once I had one run twelve hours. You can go a long way in twelve hours...
Back in the hey-day of the New Deal, it was almost the height of fashion for bright young Harvard men to go trooping off to Washington upon graduation. But today the traffic is no longer all one-way. In an educational version of "massive retaliation," steadily increasing numbers of career government servants are converging on Cambridge every year, most of them to pursue studies of one kind or another at the Littauer School of Public Administration...
Staged with particular skill and verve by Robert Lewis, Witness for the Prosecution is frequently tense. And when it is not, it manages in the best English fashion to be entertainingly easygoing. In a generally good cast Patricia Jessel achieves some real acting as the enigmatic wife; and as defense lawyer, Francis Sullivan is full of delightful courtroom wiles and histrionics. All of Witness for the Prosecution is classically rendered, with no outré horrors or ultramodern gruesomeness, and with no need...