Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vogue's Book is sure to worm its way into the shelves (or secret drawers) of many a home, because it caters to the social yearnings of all classes-from the sportsman who needs to know what kind of mourning is appropriate to driven-bird shooting (a black arm band on a tweed coat) to the unfortunate who still needs to be told that "oil is mispronounced 'erl.' " Some of it is what the whole book imagines itself to be: plain common sense and practical advice. But there is also a great deal of pedantic nonsense whose...
Wrapped up as a parody of a sportsman's manual, this is a very funny little book, but like some other funny books, it is a work of curious ferocity. Social discomfiture as a sport has never been so blandly exposed...
...Hollywood, while Cafe Sportsman Henry J. ("Bob") Topping waited for wife Arline Judge to get her divorce, Lama Turner was busy buying her $30,000 trousseau. For this, her fourth wedding,* she would wear a princess-style gown in beige lace over champagne satin. The lingerie-some $5,000 worth-would include a dozen nightgowns, half of them fingertip length, in flowered chiffon...
Rumania's Michael, visiting sportsman-flyer and speed enthusiast, found life accelerating a little on his U.S. visit. Washington followed Manhattan; next came Dayton, Detroit, then on to Cleveland, Texas, Toledo and Manhattan again. The Governor of Michigan himself flew the ex-king over Detroit ("to show His Majesty this arsenal of democracy"). There were also less hospitable elements. Pro-and anti-Michaelites scuffled briefly in Detroit, and the State Department said it was "taking measures" in recognition of "reports of rumors of a plot...
When a fish bites, it seems, the "tip-up" waves a bright red flag in the air. The sportsman then leaps up, snatches his booty, and again retires to his point of vantage. This whole procedure is guaranteed to be simultaneousy thrilling and restful...