Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city's main street, is 'busy as usual. Stores named in French and Annamite peddle silks and souvenirs, white-topped Vietnamese police amble along, Foreign Legionnaires crowd sidewalk cafes, civilians in shorts sip cafe au lait in front of the fashionable bar of La Pagode. Women, slim and petite, add color with their cai-at (a vivid silk gown split at the hips, worn over silk pajamas...
...more success, he decided to take his music at one remove, pay for it rather than make it himself.' Today, after 40 years of footing bills, 70-year-old Count Chigi-Saracini has a good claim to the title of Italy's No. 1 music patron. The slim, white-haired nobleman has remodeled his vast, 800-year-old palazzo in Siena to house a concert hall and theater, gathered together one of Europe's finest music libraries. On the count's payroll are the topnotch Siena quintet (now known as the Quintette Chigiana), the choirmaster...
Last week Merchandiser Marcus decided that other lands might like to see some U.S. styles. He sent four slim, trim models off by air on a 25-day visit to Australia. Their mission: to stage 54 style shows in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, wearing $50,000 worth of fancy American-made clothes from Neiman-Marcus' stock. Marcus hopes that well-heeled Australians will be tempted...
...Korea, the House approved a $1 billion cut in excise taxes on such items as train fares, movie admissions, luggage, jewelry and furs. And though President Truman had promised to veto any bill that did not balance these cuts with increases somewhere else, the House failed by a slim $12 million to make up the difference. To get new revenue, the House voted...
Philadelphia Bulletin Columnist Earl Selby started the day in a peculiar manner, came down to breakfast one morning with his face unshaven, and wearing the shabbiest clothes he could find. He sprinkled the contents of a vacuum cleaner over himself, then doused himself with stale beer. Selby's slim, red-haired wife Dorothy was not the least bit surprised at this performance...