Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children. Cracked Hagerty in oblique response to Ross's unhappy departure: Mrs. Snyder's business (she is also a skilled landscape painter) is "raising children." C| Named as Assistant Army Secretary for Civil-Military Affairs (Army Engineers, river and harbors work, etc.) Missouri's Dewey Short, 58, longtime (1929-31, 1935-57) Congressman who got a surprise defeat in last November's elections. Republican Short, for many years a member or chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, succeeds George H. Roderick, who moves back to his old job as Assistant Army Secretary for Financial Management...
...index's latest rise will bring escalator-clause pay boosts averaging 10 an hour. But a lot of less lucky American workers, and millions of people living on fixed incomes, are finding that, with prices going up, their standard-of-living escalators are going down. And the short-range outlook. Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Ewan Clague glumly predicted last week, is that the index will continue to "creep up like this...
...been working too hard while sustaining himself on "about 30 cups of tea a day, absorbing all of the salt in his body." Once back in his seat, Menon expressed a desire to speak for ten minutes and promptly launched into a speech that lasted just short of an hour...
...Seventh Avenue joyfully discovered that every dress in every closet in the U.S. had been outmoded at one stroke. Every year since then, Seventh Avenue has looked to Dior to do it again. Dior duly assumed the accents proper to a dictator. "The women who are loudest for short skirts will soon be wearing the longest dresses. I know very well the women." He banished knees: "This part is never to be seen. It is bone, and I do not find bone particularly attractive." On occasion (1953) he changed direction without breaking stride, declaring: "I'm just itching...
...visitor is to be in Paris only a short time, she is stripped to her bra and girdle (preferably to her skin, but some are bashful). Measurements are taken in every conceivable direction, with especial attention to the size and disposition of the bosom, and a form is made to her shape. At Maison Dior, stuffed dummies are piled tidily atop closets in ghostly and lumpy array, all carefully anonymous but numbered...