Word: showness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also mulled ways & means of getting the boodle, set down a sort of burglar's handbook: "Bend end of small screw driver to get between glass and putty . . . Buy diamonds with cash from Cartier's-when I want to sell a hot one show the receipt . . . Dogs love the smell and taste of cinnamon . . . Scotch Tape stuck on a pane of frosted glass enables one to see through, but not out . . . use bulb in toilet bowl to hide diamonds . . . Leave phony overcoat button at scene...
...Social and Humanitarian Committee, which was debating a Draft Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude." In a rare show of unanimity, their usually separate moral sensibilities jointly outraged, the U.S., Britain and Russia agreed...
Chatillon has made customer-shocking a million-peso-a-year business. For half an hour before the opening of his annual fashion show last week, the Packards and Cadillacs of traditionally tardy Mexico City society matrons tied up traffic in front of his combined atelier and home on the Paseo de la Reforma. Inside, they sipped cocktails and critically eyed U.S., French and Mexican mannequins in a display of 60 new models ranging from simple afternoon dresses to bare-top evening gowns at from 1,500 to 5,000 pesos each...
...least one point: the nation needs new schools. But, said ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this week, "it is a sad-and little recognized-fact that the pitifully inadequate supply of taxpayer's dollars is, in most big U.S. cities, being spent for the wrong kind of schools." To show what it meant, the FORUM devoted its entire October issue to the U.S. school...
...result, says the FORUM, is that "New York is putting millions of dollars into 1,000-pupil elementary schools -many of them in areas where [population analysis] raise serious doubt as to permanency of need. They are all built to last at least 50 years, but they show scarcely a trace of the design revolution of the last two decades...