Word: proclaimingly
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workrooms, dressmakers tacked and stitched round the clock filling orders for spring and summer lines. Designers and assistants were feverishly sketching the fall collections that will go on show in May. On the street, whose signs proclaim it FASHION AVENUE, traffic was all but paralyzed by porters pushing wheeled racks of garments from shop to shipper. The end product of all this activity festooned stores large and small across the country, as window displays and clothes departments bloomed with the bright fresh crop of U.S. fashions...
...Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.-Leviticus...
...varieties. Battling back, French producers have launched the first publicity drive in the French champagne industry's history. At a cost of $425,000, billboards have been put up in some areas of France and neighboring Belgium that show two glasses raised in a toast and proclaim: CHAMPAGNE-NOTHING REPLACES IT. So far, the producers have resisted the urge to extend the champagne campaign to other countries, however, and even the limited publicity blitz has stirred discomfort in the industry. "It's not the thing to do," says one venerable champagne maker. "Champagne is a luxury product that...
...that Ronald Reagan, an open antiCommunist, is in the presidential race [Nov. 24], it will be interesting to see how soon the Communists and their "useful fools" will proclaim him to be a fascist...
...second plot, far and away Gilbert's funniest, concerns the House of Lords. Gilbert has his Lord Mountararat (a name suggesting the aristocracy's excessive reverence for ancestry) proclaim that "If there is a single institution that is unsusceptible of any improvement whatsoever, it is the House of the Lords." This recalls the Duke of Wellington's remark a half-century earlier that Parliament was perfect--on the eve of the Reform Bill...