Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dupuy's death in 1927 his widow was installed in his office, learning to boss the largest group of publications in France. Since then, she has trained her two sons to succeed her. Mme Dupuy entertains lavishly at Versailles and at her apartment in Passy, sports the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Her message to the Conference...
...week may be divided roughly and not without argument into three groups. First are the older houses who are heavy with prestige but exercise comparatively little authority over fashion trends. In this class are Worth, Paquin, Callot Soeurs and Redfern, who was the first couturier to receive the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Next is a large group of comparatively young houses or old ones which have passed their prime. Although they may startle the trade almost any year with a new trend, they are not at present the most dominant influence in fashion. Preeminent among them...
...Manhattan. Its Brothers Straus might grouse about taxes and codes if their store failed to earn a profit on a $45,000,000 turnover but they would be expected also to effect a quick turnover in executives. But Field's does not fire executives; it raises them from the ribbon counter to old age. Of such is President McKinlay, a quiet, determined gentleman with a love for traveling, who was born 60 years ago in Scotland, only 40 mi. from the birth place of his predecessor, able James Simpson, who left Field's to solve the troubles of Insulland (TIME...
...songs about Liberty and Freedom, songs they had voluntarily ceased to sing a few months before out of respect for the Nazi "Total State." Korps spirit boiled when Dr. Oskar Staebel, official Nazi student mentor, came out against student caps and the wearing of Korps colors on a narrow ribbon stretched like an ambassador's cordon across the breast...
...appearance he is a tall, sleek theatrical figure with black hair, a tail coat, and glasses on a broad black ribbon. He is a Roman Catholic...