Word: print
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horizontal stripes are not being worn at all this season: they hit the screen wriggling and writhing like worms. Intricate print dresses are not recommended: they have a way of getting "busy...
...urged to consider, for informal wear, the advantages of the heavily starched, detached collar*: it does not wilt under studio lights. Bright, patterned ties, like print frocks, are out-and for the same reason...
...usual Christmas demand for the book that has made the name of Thomas à Kempis more enduring than marble. The Imitation of Christ has probably been translated into more languages than any other book but the Bible (at least eight U.S. publishers have one or more editions currently in print).* It is a short book, simply written. Like the writings of the earliest Christians, it speaks directly to ordinary people, not merely to theologians or philosophers. It is perhaps the nearest, clearest answer that has been made to the simple question: how to be a Christian. In 15th Century Latin...
...people whose private lives have been rudely invaded by the press or radio, journalism is simply bad taste in print or wired for sound. Can they do anything about it? Not much, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week. The court upheld dismissal of the suit of two sisters who had sued a Tuscaloosa radio station for digging up a story about their father's disappearance in 1905. "The right of privacy is supported by logic and the weight of authority," said the court, but in the face of "legitimate public interest" it has to give...
...against able enemies, with insufficient men and supplies. Freeman's accounts of Washington's volunteer trip to warn the French away from the Ohio, the disastrous defeat at Fort Necessity and the slaughter of Braddock's army are easily the soundest and most complete in print...