Word: meshes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edmondo Rossoni, Minister of Agriculture, gentlest Cabinet Minister, who used to see everybody, promise everything, do nothing. Stanch friend to Soviet Ambassador Boris Stein, he had hoped that the Moscow-Berlin and Rome-Berlin Axes might mesh...
...last season Paris turned to the Renaissance, resurrected for hats the snood worn by Beatrice d'Este. It caught on, and the Paris openings last month brought worse news to hairdressers. The simple snood-which caught back hair in a mesh bag-had been developed into what was called "back interest." The 1939 snood, balancing front-tipped hats, almost completely encased the hair in fabric-jersey, velvet, grosgrain-nullifying the hairdressers...
...patient Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace has probably laid the biggest egg. Weary Mr. Wallace, toiling like Tantalus in Hades, has pushed the farm problem up the hill countless times, only to have it roll back and crush him anew each & every time. Trapped in a six-year mesh of cumbrous grabbag legislation, alternately burned by droughts* and swamped by bounteous Nature's overproduction, still he comes up with a dogged smile, pushes his greying cowlick out of his eyes, and tackles the irresistible forces with new enthusiasm. But still U. S. farmers rate...
...with his head down and his own worries in an interval of about ten seconds. On Fifth Avenue this has led to glamor plus novelty. Most noticeable evidence: a change in manikins from a shiny waxwork sisterhood with open-eyed little smiles to papier-máché, wire mesh or carven effigies of the dangling, mask-faced glamor girl...
...Saks's veteran Display Director Sidney Ring by the noted sculptor, Alexander Archipenko. There are now several cunning sculptors who make manikins their business: Cora Scovil, Lester Gaba, Jean Spadea (who gives her Bonwit Teller manikins such names as Zombie, Emmie and Eve). Manikins sculptured in wire mesh and covered with sheet music were introduced at Bergdorf Goodman last spring by Buckley & Riley, considered the maddest independents in the business...