Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coals to Newcastle. Crouching before the mike during halves of the Globetrotters' basketball ballet, Donegan crooks his right knee, pumps his foot convulsively and whangs his guitar, occasionally wrenching his pelvis Elvis-fashion. Most often he sounds like Grand Ole Opry cornball recorded at 33⅓ r.p.m. played at 78. Backing up the young (25) Glasgow-born skiffler are a second guitarist, a two-beat drummer and the best showman of the combo, a red-goateed bass plucker named Mickey Ashman, who twirls his big fiddle, tops the act by rolling on the floor with...
...PATH FASHION HOUSE of Paris, which carried on under Widow Genevieve Fath after Jacques Fath died in 1954, is going out of dress business. Once ranked with Dior in sensational creations, House of Fath will sell only such accessories as hosiery, gloves, perfumes...
...specialties as delphiniums and mums. In the rose business, in which it annually grosses three times the combined sales of its three nearest rivals, J. & P. also leads its field in adapting to changing times. In 1940 it promoted floribunda roses-many full-sized blooms carried candelabra-fashion on a single stem-for small gardeners who want to make the kind of splashy effect with half a dozen rosebushes that estate gardeners get with whole beds. Today 70% of J. & P.'s rose sales are in floribundas. For those who want dozens of blossoms on a single stalk...
...watch be when the clock shows the right time?" A few days later, a primary schoolmaster wrote a whole article defending his incorrect answer to the question: "Here are the first six letters of the alphabet, written above and below the line. Continue the alphabet in a similar fashion...
...Mennonites' only concession to Mexican ways has been to learn Spanish. After their fashion, they are good citizens; e.g., they will not buy licenses for their wagons, instead each month they promptly pay their accumulated fines for driving unlicensed vehicles. But last week, as they were getting ready to plant the oat crop and praying for a good rainy season, the Mennonites knew that their peace with the outer world...