Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building a show on women's styles, he managed to make the styles sufficiently sound to be featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan's 7th Avenue who were asked last winter to guess what women would be wearing this fall, Hollywood designers Omar (né Alexander) Kiam, Irene and Helen Taylor turned out most of the dresses, gowns and coats for Vogues of 1938. Manhattan's supersmart John-Frederics and Sally Victor did the hats, Jaeckel the furs. Through the Modern Merchandising Bureau...
...scull themselves rapidly to the surface with their big tail fins and then shoot out into the air at a low angle. The instant their wings are clear of the water they unfold. What the fish do with their wings next seems to be any observer's guess. If the fins flap or flutter, the fish may be said to fly. If the fish hold their outspread fins stiffly, they may be said simply to glide...
...major U. S. diversion was trying to guess the precise significance of President Coolidge's famed "I do not choose to run." The Senate passed a resolution, introduced by Senator Robert La Follette, against Presidential third terms. On this precedent last week, Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, whose Congressional district includes Hyde Park, introduced a resolution that made interesting reading for his most famed constituent "that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents . . . in retiring . . . after their second term . . . has become by common concurrence a part...
...this time the Senate was prepared for something but hardly for what happened next. Without interrupting the rhythm of his gavel, or pausing to let the Senate guess what he had in mind, the Vice President shouted "Without objection the Bill as amended is passed." Under the rules one shout of "I object" could have stopped him - for one is enough to prevent unanimous consent - but none of the surprised Senators had just those words on the tip of his tongue...
Emerging from Valencia, the Leftist Capital, Correspondent William F. McDermott of North American Newspaper Alliance added his bit last week to uncensored lore of Spain's Civil War. "I should guess, on the basis of what is clear to the eyes here," he jotted in his notebook before leaving Valencia, "that a Franco victory will result in the creation of the most radical Fascist State that the world has known. A Valencia victory is similarly likely to end in the institution of a Communistic State that will make Russia look like a haven of economic royalists. No one talks...