Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring, but the judge sees twelve-the six real dogs, and six ideal dogs that exist only in his mind's eye. He isn't comparing the Bedlington with the springer; he measures the real and the ideal Bedlington." Ch. Rock Ridge Night Rocket might not look much of a dog, but of his kind, he was tops...
...large, Nemo is an optimist: a heavy flood will bring forth a dissertation on the raindrop ("a masterpiece of jewel-like workmanship"), and "green sky is a double delight . . . beautiful to look upon and always suggesting fair weather." Even the Big Snow of '47 left him undismayed. After it was all over, he found it "fair, COLD, SPARKLING, STIMULATING, PERFECT! Dazzling white snow, sky of blue...
...Paris, U.S. buyers last week crowded into Dressmaker Christian Dior's salon for the spring showing. They hoped once again to be agreeably shocked by the man whose long hemlines last year helped create the New Look (TIME, Sept. 15). As the first models went by, the buyers gasped. Dior had veered away from the New Look...
Despite Dior's deviation, other Paris dressmakers grimly carried on the New Look's long skirts, pinched waists, and other handicaps to normal activity. Example: heavy "riding habit" skirts that weigh six pounds. The hobble skirt was everywhere, usually split to the knee to leave the wearers some power of locomotion...
...movie veteran, Director Henry King. King spotted Colman on Broadway in 1922 (supporting Ruth Chatterton and Henry Miller in La Tendresse), and gave him the male lead opposite Lillian Gish in The White Sister (1923). Since Miss Gish became a nun in the picture, all Colman could do was look frustrated, but he did that so handsomely that his movie career was assured. During the middle and late '20s he and the late John Gilbert ran neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost leading men. Gilbert had the edge on heavy-breathing love scenes and Colman on elegance...