Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tragedy struck-in the form of Elsa Schiaparelli. The struggle lasted ten years. In 1938, almost overnight, the women of Paris, followed sheeplike by the women of the world, turned from Coco to the invader from Italy, with her exaggerated feminine conceits, her tassels, her flaming colors and "parachute" silhouettes. "Chanel wanted the tricot sailor frock with the long sweater, the short skirt," says Schiaparelli. "I took the frock. I altered the line . . . Voilà! Chanel ees feeneesh...
...chance coming, he was "met by some new challenge.'' The challenge now offered by a second term "is the continuance in our Federal Government of the high standards now established." Hendrickson discovered a helpful fact: "For New Jersey, certain definite advantages . . . would be wiped out overnight . . . [by] changing Senators just at a time when our rich experience and our seniority status in the Senate is of greatest value to the state." (Lackluster Bob Hendrickson now ranks only fifth on both his committees, and not even the seniority system is likely to make him influential...
...soon Roussel discovered that Byzan tine Empire politics were veined with in trigue and deceit. When Emperor Ro-manus Diogenes and his huge force of 60,000 men were beaten by treachery at Manzikert in 1071, confusion became the real ruler of the Empire. Emperors were made and unmade overnight, and an honest free-lance soldier scarcely knew his employer from one battle to the next. Roussel tried desperately to keep on the winning side, and for a time it seemed that his chance for a personal domain might come. But when, in the blazing Asiatic heat, he was himself...
...these, 1,998 were overnight books on reserve, the highest figure for overnight circulation...
Arriving in Hawaii from Japan with her husband, Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, former Show Girl Lucille Wilson Armstrong ran into trouble with Honolulu customs men who dug into her overnight bag, found a spectacles case containing crazy cigarettes. Charged with trying to smuggle marijuana, Lucille contended that the whole case was crazy because she doesn't even wear glasses...