Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 29 article on the cotton industry: Have the gals of the fashion world been able to figure out what we suburb-dwellers do with our new-spangled, giddy denims once they've hit the clothesline...
...Western World. A "poor man's Bermuda" was what Washington wags called it, for this was a last-minute substitute for the conference of the Big Three leaders which was called off by the illness of Winston Churchill. The foreign secretaries will meet in less dramatic fashion in an air-conditioned room on the eleventh floor of the old State Department Annex. But their mission is just as important: to reinvigorate a taken-for-granted alliance that has shown signs of wilting in the hot, unexpected gusts of the Soviet "peace offensive...
...their thrones; they acceded on the same day last spring (TIME, May 11). Neither had anything to do with the bickerings; they were away studying at England's Harrow during most of it. In the hot sun at Baghdad airport, they kissed in the Arab fashion, rode off together in a scarlet coach drawn by six white horses. Iraqi chieftains from far-flung oases came to Baghdad to pump the hand of the handsome visitor from Jordan. Feisal ordered a five-hour military show for his pistol-toting cousin. At European-style banquets, while diplomats and ministers drank wine...
Eventually the weights went out of fashion until, before World War I, a tiny, tireless old British lady named Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott began to collect them. By the time she died in 1938, she owned more than 450, and not one had cost her more than $125. Just before World War II, many collectors got interested and prices began to climb. By last week, Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott's collection had been auctioned off in London. Total price: about $50,000. No one knows how many more weights were brought back by tourists to Britain...
...vigorous and growing. But as a conscious and proudly defended outlook on public affairs, as a philosophy of life and government, it was driven underground for a hundred years, laughed out of the schools, driven like an old hag in a gunnysack from the glittering and shifting fashion show of ideas...