Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well as Mrs. Ernest Simpson's sport outfits, the next most important designer of 1937 is thoroughly British Captain Edward Henry Molyneux. Though Designer Molyneux looks, talks and acts like a dressmaker, he fought straight through the World War, was wounded three times, wears the purple-&-white ribbon of the Military Cross won for gallantry in action. British too and important to any fashion scout is Designer Norman Hartnell, whose sweeping formal evening gowns are highly favored by long-limbed British peeresses. Despite his name, Designer Mainbocher was born in Chicago, worked for a long time as pianist...
...hillside. Park Carpenter, second vice-president of the Association, who is in Laconia making final arrangements for the championships, is still praying for snow. But if this fails to materialize, winter sport fans may witness the unique spectacle of an otherwise bare hillside bisected by a glittering, steep ribbon of snow, with a run-off field, snow-blanketed at its base. The process will be the same employed at the Boston and New York indoor winter sport shows, only on a much bigger scale. The artificial ice-manufacture and its sprinkling over the big 60-meter jump, if it becomes...
...Miss Temple three portions per diem of Cocomalt (trade advt.) and strained spinach a la Temple, i.e., with luscious slices of hard-boiled egg. Miss Temple, it was added, has already shown the proper Radcliffe spirit by agreeing to wear flat-heeled shoes, horn-rimmed glasses and, possibly, a ribbon in her hair...
...impression upon a friend of ours who recently received a message from the laundry, or, as he expressed it, "the place where they allegedly wash my clothes." As he opened the envelope two cards dropped out. One was decorated gaily with green holly, snow-capped countryside, and shiny red ribbon. It said...
...rule, Memorial Hall produces a rather stunted crop of lost articles, usually only a few hats, while Sever and the New Lecture hall vie with each other for the blue-ribbon harvest of left-overs...