Word: showing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plugged like a new jazz song was the trouser mode for women at last week's show. Having established the once unpopular ensemble, U. S. couturiers are now busy trying to put over the glorified pajama and its offspring, the feminine overall, at least for luncheon, tea, tennis, beach strolling. The opinion of most buyers last week was that part-time trousers for women are just wandering, have gotten nowhere...
Last winter to Hubert R.Knickerbocker, Berlin correspondent of New York's Evening Post, appeared one Vladimir Orloff, bald, vandyke-bearded, onetime Councillor of State in the Imperial Russian Government. Mephistophelian M. Orloff had in his possession letters elaborately typed on official Soviet notepaper purporting to show that U. S. Senators William Edgar Borah and George William Norris had accepted $100,000 bribes from Soviet agents...
Riviera is the title of the show-window display in the department store where Mr. Misch struts as floorwalker. A salesgirl, first devoted to Mr. Misch, leaves him to go with the store-owner to the real Riviera...
...Molnar then wrote Heavenly and Earthly Love for a more beautiful woman, Lili Darvas, who, starring in it, became a famed actress also. Enraged, Actress Fedak responded by getting Melchior Lengyel, Hungary's second greatest playwright, to write a play with a role in which she could and did show herself superior to Actress Darvas. Outraged, Molnar wrote Mima and The Glass Slipper, both for Actress Darvas. Upshot: a divorce (Molnar v. Fedak) in which Lili Darvas figured as but one of 142 correspondents. Beautiful Darvas became a national idol, Molnar's third wife...
...loadings, vital index of the nation's business. Fruit from California and Florida, motor cars from Detroit, coal from Pennsylvania, textiles from New England, clothing from New York, cotton from the South, wheat from the West?all commodities move, and move largely by rail. High car-loadings show brisk business, efficient carriers. Pleased was the American Railway Association last week to announce that car-loadings for the first 26 weeks of 1929 made an all-time record for loadings for the first half of any year. Loadings for the week ended June 29 were also highest figures ever recorded...