Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashion eight years ago offered a memorial (oblique hats) to France's late ex-Empress Eugenie, Vogue last week proposed a similar memorial to Britain's late slim, beauteous, Danish-born Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII. Vogue's memorial: wasp waists, a fitting accompaniment to upswept hair, shirtwaists, petticoats. Said Vogue: "Now that we are going to wear 'Queen Alexandra' dresses . . . what shall we do about figures? We'll want waists a little smaller. We'll want bosoms a little more ample. We'll want hips a little more in evidence...
...Crimson, Healey may not travel the full nine innings if Johns, Lupien, and some of the other "big stick" boys can put the game on ice early, because it is essential that Big Tom be well rested for the all-important game at Hanover Saturday. Slim Curtiss is first in line for relief duty...
...must to all great men, a debunking came to Socrates this week. The debunker, University of Wisconsin's Professor Alban Dewes Winspear, is a tall, slim scholar, British-born, educated in Canada and at Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar). He has a pedagogic urge to prove that "being in the field of classics doesn't make one an old fogy." Who Was Socrates?* is calculated to make old fogies furious...
...Gatta's specialty is swooningly sleek backs. The sex appeal which is La Gatta's stock-in-trade has been parodied by Yaleman Peter Arno in the most devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing. Almost all other young illustrators are practiced hands at the slim, distracting figure - a subject which nearly monopolized this year's illustrators' exhibition, to the impoverishment of what Pyle or Gruger would have called illustration. Best young draftsmen : Al Parker, John Gannam, Harry Beckhoff of Collier's, Garrett Price, James W. Williamson...
Healey issued five passes before he was yanked with none out in the seventh, two more free tickets than he had given since the spring trip. Slim Curtiss took over the twirling duties at that point, and four Cornell runs scored before he was able to retire the side...