Word: modishness
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...Modish misses at Carnegie Hall...
...Italy for a six weeks' amorous sojourn with her bachelor admirer. A daughter is in "infinitely more competent hands," a boarding school. Love had slipped away years before. Playwright Maugham presents what, a decade or two ago, would have been termed a "problem play," done with a modish superciliousness. He offers two reasons for a woman's being faithful to an errant spouse: her debt for board and lodging; her naturally monogamous nature as contrasted with the more catholic affections of the male. In the play the first cause for fidelity is blotted out by Constance...
...refresh herself prior to visiting the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, Queen Marie hastened to the Chicago Racquet Club, donned a modish bathing garment, swam with vigor for ten minutes in the pool. Hastening to Gary, she viewed the mechanical operations of steel working from a glass-inclosed moving observation platform, but descended from it to stand beside the thrilling cascades of moulten metal. Amid the glare of the furnaces her regal and commanding presence was revealed at last in an approximately iridescent milieu...
Victoria's Granddaughter. Parisians rubbed their eyes once more at Queen Marie, unquestionably the most modish of the late Queen Victoria's granddaughters. Queen Marie, the daughter of Victoria's second son, the Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, never seemed more the perfect type of Germano-British womanhood than when she greeted with a radiant smile General Lasson, the military aide of President Doumergue who welcomed her to Paris and presented an armful of roses...
...contract the circumference of the crown. Dutifully he set to work. When he began it was of a size to encompass the swelling blond mane of Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. When he completed his task, it had shrunk to a nice fit for the modish head of Hermine, Princess von Reuss, present consort of Wilhelm, one-time Imperator...