Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paul Poiret, Parisian dressmaker, last week flayed the indecency of short skirts. Said he: "Parisian dressmakers are forced to admit they are in perfect accord with Pope Pius. . . . Women have lost by want of mystery. . . . Modern woman should wear skirts a trifle longer and more decent...
...Perfect Crime. "The greatest detective in the world" (Clive Brook) retires because criminals are so stupid. He will show them how; he commits "the perfect crime," a murder without a single clew. But finally, he is forced to confess in order to save the life of an innocent man. It is a thoroughly insipid film. To critical audiences, the crime was by no means perfect. The acting of Clive Brook and Irene Rich was exasperating. The "talkie" parts were atrocious, partly faked...
...Holy Father . . . who was the first to treat China not only on a footing of perfect equality but with true and special sympathy . . . is overjoyed and thanks the Almighty for the end of the civil...
Vionnet. Dressmakers concede to Madeleine Vionnet mastery of the art of fitting. She never uses linings in her gowns. Unexpected darts and seams, giving perfect lines to a dress, are the despair of copyists and imitators. In her salon of Lalique glass, with heroic figures of women in Vionnet models decorating the walls, mannequins display her triumphs of cutting and sewing. But before a gown leaves her shop, she marks it with her fingerprint, a safeguard against imitation...
...Francis Adams, 62, lawyer, descendant of two U. S. presidents: "We never had more wind than we wanted and half the time we had hardly sufficient to shove us, but just the same it was a wonderful cruise and if we hadn't been racing it would have been perfect." Then little Pinta and Mohawk, big Guinevere and Zodiac, arrived at Santander. But no word had been heard from Azara, and little Rofa had been demolished in a squall (TIME, July...