Word: gibson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feature of the U.S. military establishment. The Navy approved for WAVE officers an all-out braid & fixings evening uniform. Designed by Main-bocher, it was intended to be "feminine and official at the same time." To the civilian eye, the outfit looked from the waist down like an 1890 Gibson girl; from the waist up, like a chorus girl in tails...
...incidently, under what authority does "The Official University Daily" which portrays student news, activities, and events print "the CRIMSON supports the candidacy of President Truman" when you supposedly represent a cross-section of the student body? Or do you merely represent a cross-section of the CRIMSON staff? ... Mark Gibson...
...Gibson's questions are not unique; they are quite popular, and have been so for a long time. The CRIMSON has been aware of such questions. It printed an editorial on September 28 explaining how its editorial policy is determined. That editorial said, in part...
That covers all but one of Mr. Gibson's questions. The one that's left over is about the right of the CRIMSON, as a "cross-section of the student body," to support a candidate for President. The CRIMSON has never claimed to to be a cross-section. Its staff is usually a composite of the student body because people interested in journalism come from all sorts of backgrounds and have all sorts of opinions. But the CRIMSON functions as an Independent undergraduate organization, like the Dramatic Club or the Lampoon or the Young Republican Club. And the phrase...
...worn by women, and the clean-shaven, cleft-chinned Arrow Collar Man, a creation of Artist Joseph Leyendecker. From a million billboards and car cards, his coldly correct profile mounted on an Arrow choker gave feminine hearts a guide to male perfection. Like his culture mate, the tightly corseted Gibson Girl, the Arrow Collar Man disappeared from ads as men turned to the soft, collar-attached shirt. Cluett, Peabody almost vanished with...