Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furbelows. 2) Waistlines are rising to the normal waist, are frequently accentuated by belts. 3) Skirts have fallen irretrievably, with several Patou street models a full six inches below knee length, and many evening gowns with demi-trains. 4) Evening bodices are slimmer, with decolletage lower behind, higher in front. 5) Trig jackets-many reversible-are especially smart for city and sports. 6) Summer fabrics, very simple for day wear, with a startling revival of bright ginghams and even calicos. 7) Hats are even smaller and sleeker, many brimless and exposing the forehead. 8) Colors, brighter, with contrasting...
...method. It is a cameractual dissertation on life in the metropolis. Sophie Smith (Jane Hamilton) doesn't mean to be bad, but she permits herself to be seduced by an artist. When she finds she is in his way, she leaves him, committing suicide by jumping in front of a subway train. It is only an honest play, not a good...
Coincidentally, in Manhattan, murmurings over a new opera house mounted to a front-page roar. Confirmed were the reports that John Davison Rockefeller Jr. had leased from Columbia University a sector of Manhattan extending from 48th to 51st Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues (TIME, Dec. 31), and that he had done so with a new opera house in mind. But the Metropolitan's directors continued to ponder their selection of a site...
...front cover} In 1925 three young men, energetic and determined, were elected Presidents of three of the huger Midwestern universities. The educational world looked to them for dynamic administrations, shrewd innovations. Their average...
...accident, horrible but instructive, took place in front of Rumania's musty, weather-beaten Foreign Office in Bucharest. When jailed the driver of the car seemed neither drunk, blind nor mad, though his explanation was: "I just didn't notice them in time...