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Word: modishly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only colorblind; its eye is astigmatic, twitchy and inclined to water. To TV, the most modish gown or the nattiest waistcoat can look like something that was spilled on the carpet. In self-defense, the televisers have been devising a fashion code of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Patterns, Please | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Married. William Randolph Hearst Jr., 41, balding second of The Chief's five sons, publisher of the New York Journal-American; and Austine ("Bootsie") McDonnell Cassini, 28, the Washington Times-Herald's modish society gossipist; he for the third time, she for the second; in Warrenton, Va. Her first was Igor ("Ghigi") Cassini, himself the society gossipist of the Journal-American, which in reporting the marriage made no mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...effort to concur with current fashions at every turn, the editors of Radditudes, the Radcliffe monthly, last week lengthened their skirts, bared their shoulders and changed the name of their publication to the more modish Signature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radditudes Becomes Signature in Change By Annex Literatae | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...less comprehensive title was awarded to Austine Cassini, modish Washington Times-Herald columnist. The title: "Most Magnificent Doll among American Newspaperwomen." The loot: a silver-plated typewriter. Also a trip to the premiere of a movie titled The Magnificent Doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Cochran should have a very bright future as a polished movie menace. Mile. Morgan, who has done some fairly suave acting in French films, gets the safe treatment Hollywood gives many pretty foreign imports: she is allowed to be modish, mysterious and monosyllabic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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