Word: matched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sensation of the week was a group of transparent georgette evening dresses by Lanvin, embroidered with designs in wool. Demurely the models hoisted their skirts to show full-length opera tights, dyed to match the dress...
...last June, first heavyweight championship bout not staged by Madison Square Garden in 18 years. But the final spurt which sent him on his way to becoming top man in U. S. fight promotion began in 1934 when Madison Square Garden, longtime promoter of at least one annual boxing match for Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies, decided to discontinue that practice. Asked if he would stage a fight for the Milk Fund, Mike Jacobs, No. 1 Manhattan ticket speculator for a decade, promptly formed the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, became a fight promoter...
When last year he brought Max Schmeling from Germany to give hitherto undefeated Joe Louis a terrible beating, it did not jar Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of events was not considered by Jacobs to offer the maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago...
...late comers, and the Government were rigidly keeping prices reasonable. Since Paris is the capital of fashion, females from all over the world are now swarming daily into the Exposition's Pavilion d'Elégance, but most of the great French creators of style are a match for them. Never accustomed hitherto to showing their latest models to the vulgar public, they have created for the Exposition dresses too breathtakingly extreme, fantastic and sumptuous to be worn by one woman in a million, show them mostly on featureless-faced mannequins rough-hewn of pinkish beige plaster, some...
...Liverpool Diocesan Review, the Right Rev. Albert Augustus David, Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, explained why baseball is "unsuited to the English temperament." Excerpts: "The backchat and calls of both players and spectators at a baseball match in America are something to be remembered when the play is forgotten. So far, English spectators of baseball have only learned the elementary calls of the game. If they ever learn the full phraseology of American baseball, we do not think "it will be long before its undesirable effects are seen at Association football matches...