Word: rave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in over 20 years the cables were barren of news from world headquarters of the haute couture. For the first time since they began publication, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar sent to press their all-important autumn issues without a single last-minute Paris model to rave about. The U. S. dress business, whose 7,000 manufacturers and 250,000 workers turn out upwards of $1,000,000,000 worth (at wholesale) of garments each year, was headed without a rudder toward the open...
...going to be any war. They put their faith in the League of Nations and collective security. Labor was in no mood to forgo any of its privileges for the sake of national rearmament. Big business was in no mood to foot the rearmament bill. Winston Churchill might rave and rumble about the Nazi danger. But the Labor Party's Major Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison (now Minister of Supply) struck more popular poses as humanitarians, League of Nations advocates, good Europeans. Meanwhile the Conservative Party ran the Government, held the slippery balance of power by buttering wishful pacifist...
Young Man With a Horn, by Dorothy Baker (TIME, June 6, 1938), was inspired by the life & work of the immeasurably talented Bix Beiderbecke. Readers raved over the novel; jazz musicians held it in thorough contempt.* Piano in the Band is like a roomful of rank amateurs through whose affectionate bloobs and bleatings may be heard, if faintly and scratchily, the record they are trying to duplicate: Tin Roof Blues. Whether readers can rave over it is doubtful. What musicians will think of the novel - since they are kind to the nonpretentious - is uncertain. But faulty...