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...matter what your proportions may be, we have models which will give you an air of modish slenderness?and which we know will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stout Women | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Majesty beloved Albert I is King of the Belgians, but the most potent & picturesque Belgian is Captain Alfred Loewenstein. Last week the stocky, swarthy Captain stepped down upon Manhattan from the liner lie de France with modish but retiring Mme. Loewenstein. As a matter of course, they had occupied the liner's premier suite de luxe and had brought along as guests four titled friends, le Comte et la Comtesse de Grunnes & le Comte et la Comtesse de Montalembert. Equally as usual to the Loewensteins was their staff of 15 secretaries and personal servants. Necessarily eight suites and cabins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Without Ostentation | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...telephone rang and said, "Secretary Mellon will wait 15 minutes longer for you." Mayor Walker eased into his modish overcoat and observed: "I am happy wherever I am. That's why I hate to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Walker | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Results were forthcoming, disastrous to collegiate femininity. Man was loath to walk and "co-eds" heckled with burly Jehus over the taxi fare. From the silken folds of modish dancing frocks handbags were produced at the door. Both sexes furthermore had a chance of experiencing that great American institution of the younger generation-"getting stuck"-from another angle. And at popular eating houses after the ball the reprisal was completed. Men exhausted the possibilities of the menu while their fair escorts confined themselves to the right hand side of the carte...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WOMAN PAYS | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...Thief. Another mysterious horror-monger keeps the audience guessing and for no good reason of plot. Yet its crazy eccentricity pops, flares and gyrates the idle curiosity, and gluts the modish thirst for murder in every act. Among those possibly guilty are a set of ex-convicts bearing brands upon their foreheads. This is the first play of Edward E. Paramore Jr., clever writer. It is distinguished by better characterization than is usual or necessary in this dramatic form, is exceptionally well acted (Margaret Wycherly, in particular), and chills as well as any of these things can. It is housed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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