Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, such a busy group needs a means of "internal communication," and the mimeographed Democratic Review informs members in witty fashion of the goings-on. Of the annual Christmas party, it said in the lead article: "Tradition shall mix with the liberal spirit, carols with caucuses, and good fellowship preside over all." In addition, the club helps publish the Democrat, "an intelligence service for the people...
National characteristics not only show up in food, fashion and love, but also in sport-particularly in ice hockey. Canada's own game is like the land itself: rugged and bruising, a body-contact sport something like a combination of lacrosse (another Canadian game) and football. European hockey is so different as to be barely recognizable at times. While Canadians are trained to deliver solid body and board checks, the Europeans tend to play hockey like soccer, as a game of finesse with greater emphasis on pinpoint passing and Fancy Dan pattern plays...
...style, the U.S. flattened Sweden, 7-1. The victories were so convincing that the Europeans laid on the rough stuff themselves. Both the Czechs and the Swedes whacked their opponents to the ice in the best Canadian style. Even the Soviets, bruised by the MacFarlands, brawled in most uncomradely fashion with the Czechs before winning 4-3 in a game dotted with 15 penalties. But the Europeans will have to wait until next year. Canada beat down the opposition and went home with its third world championship in five years...
...rigidity of its economic determinism, they prove that the old script has considerable power. Nobody nowadays seems to give a very passionate damn about the poor and downtrodden, including perhaps Mr. Odets, but he did then, and these actors spill out their guts on his behalf in rousing fashion...
...answers: Elizabeth was illegitimate in the sense that her father, Henry VIII, had his marriage with her mother, Anne Boleyn, declared invalid; 2) evidence is that Elizabeth was barren; 3) she had fine red-gold hair, and if she wore a wig, it was for reasons of fashion; 4) her relations with nine successive Popes were stormy, but she showed some signs of restraint. In the Prayer Book, designed for worship in the church of which she was the head, Protestant Elizabeth with her own hand struck out the words:"From the Bishop of Rome and his detestable enormities. Good...