Word: heed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual were the productions of Elsa Schiaparelli, who supposedly designs in silhouettes with paper and shears. Her best ideas: new "doll" hats suggesting birds' nests, in fur; high-buttoned colored kid boots; tiny electric lights on handbags and ornaments. Schiaparelli's opposites, Vionnet and Alix, who pay heed to anatomy and do their designing on models, showed finely draped and molded dresses. The derivative-exotic appeared in the collections of Molyneux, who used vaguely Oriental touches, Lanvin, who offered Persian toques and flares, and Paquin, whose long, slim, golden gowns suggested the Chinese...
...week helped get Wages-&-Hours its hearing on the floor, but the real reasons for the sensational transformation of Aunt Mary's capsized applecart into a genuine political bandwagon lay elsewhere. They were: 1) a letter to her from Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight in effect urging members to heed her petition, and 2) the Florida primary (see p. 77), which had the result of urging members to heed Franklin Roosevelt...
Unfortunately for themselves, the Jamaica workers did not heed, last week attacked His Majesty's dusky constabulary with sticks & stones. It was the most disorderly Jamaican occurrence since the Negro revolt of 1865. The constables opened fire, as was their duty. Result: six deaths; seven critical injuries; 43 others hospitalized; and resumption of work in the cane fields...
...labor; in the White House he could no longer be that. While a labor President, backed by a majority in Congress, could make great contributions toward winning security for labor's millions, a President dependent on the support of other strata of the population would have to heed various pressures. To be the leader of an aggressive, growing labor movement makes Lewis far more serviceable to the working people than to be a captive in the White House...
...golfing addicts paid as much heed to the past-performance charts of golf pros as racing addicts give to form sheets, no one would have been surprised last week when, at the close of the winter circuit, the Professional Golfers Association announced the top money-winners of the season. Leading the field for the second year in a row was British-born Harry Cooper of Chicopee, Mass., never yet Open champion but generally considered the most expert golfer...