Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton was in Manhattan this week a-tiptoe for the U. S. publication of his Scrapbook.) ± Sure to grace drawing rooms wherever there are bright young things, this rococo collection displays not only smart photographs of Britain's Brightest, from Poet W. H. Auden to Princess Natalie...
...riders to ride two horses each. Second night the U. S. riders held their lead with 16 faults, though they performed badly (nine faults) in the pair-jumping which was won by the Irish Free State. Third and final night the U. S. riders, out to protect their slim lead, were charged with twelve faults in the team jumping. The Canadian and Belgian teams tied with eight faults each, and Belgium was awarded first place on the flip of a coin. When the final scores were totaled. Canada had nosed out the U. S. by one point: Belgium was third...
...encourage the men who compete in the examinations but who do not win the prizes. These are the bulk of the people interested, and yet, unless they win, they receive no official recognition for their trouble, and the chances of their continuance in the field, time after time, are slim. To these men who fight the good fight but fail to bring home the spoils some tribute should be paid in the form of certificates or announcements proclaiming that they had participated. These certificates could be limited to those who pass creditably, but they would be a definite incentive beyond...
...gentleman all in pink who soars through the young girl's room (Le Spectre de la Rose), the fantastically white-faced can-can dancer in La Boutique Fantasque, the jolly hussy of a street dancer in Le Beau Danube, the slim bluebird and her lightly-leaping partner in Aurora's Wedding-these favorite characters of U. S. ballet fans were once more on the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week. They were personified by Paul Petroff, Léonide Massine, Alexandra Danilova, Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...
...look like a widow's back yard. In the booming middle twenties it paid dividends and plowed earnings back into the plant. Then came Depression and a combination of new natural gas and oil pipe lines, improved highways and two Government-subsidized barge lines made traffic pickings so slim in the Mississippi Valley that the M. & O. derailed into receivership. Railroader Norris was receiver until the Southern called him back to Washington...