Word: garb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salvemini sees a definite cooperation in the policies of Mussolini and the British Prime Minister. "Chamberlain needs to appear to the British electorate under the garb of the angel of peace . . . Mussolini, by raising a row with the French allows Chamberlain to intervene as a peacemaker...
...seen from the exhibits that the new architecture is not merely a new garb for an old framework," Bogner said. "The public is hard to convince that modern architecture is not a stylistic venture, like a new model of an automobile or a fashion show, but is the outgrowth of new demands set on buildings as a result of social changes and the technological developments...
...Europe with Leopold Stokowski, she chatted brightly with reporters, smiled, posed for pictures. Asked whether she was married, she said she would not marry until she found the "right man." Into Jack & Charlie's ("21"), famed Manhattan restaurant, wandered Cinema Director Frank Capra, dressed in conventional Hollywood garb, including a polo shirt open at the throat. The headwaiter, horrified, rushed up to him, murmured apologetically: "Sorry, but you can't sit here like that. You'll have to wear a necktie. I'll have the waiter bring some in from our stock." Huffed, Capra buttoned...
...Smythe and Dr. Miner Searle Bates of the University of Nanking, helped organize a Nanking safety zone which, although the Japanese merely spared it from concentrated bombardment, probably saved thousands of civilian lives. To this zone went thousands of frantic Chinese soldiers, eager to exchange their uniforms for civilian garb, or even to strip themselves to their underclothing lest the Japanese execute them as soldiers. Upon Rev. John Magee, able Episcopal missionary, lately of Shanghai, fell the job of organizing medical care in Nanking, Chinese army hospitals being completely inadequate. With two missionary doctors and two American nurses-whose dormitories...
...legitimate advertising in figures sent to advertisers and agencies." Even the conservative Editor & Publisher warned that "the whole enterprise comes perilously close to the ethical line. . . . Commercial announcements, no matter what their object and no matter how pleasingly prepared, have no right to trespass on the space and the garb in which the public expects newspapers to print their own views and the authentic reports of responsible correspondents...