Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr., recently named one of the world's best-dressed men, was asked to speak a few words to open the London tailoring exhibition. Sample of the words: "A generation drab in dress is drab in outlook." Tailors, he added, should strive for "restrained enterprise" in men's clothing. The sharp eyes of Savile Row cutters noted the speaker's own restraint: a double-breasted brown suit, cream shirt and frayed black tie (a relic of his days in U.S. Navy uniform...
...field . . . strive to give man "a sense of usefulness and importance" in as many areas of his living as possible; we are the searchers for those "things" which will help restore meaning and value to life's living. We are "a new art," a new philosophy, of which not too many are, as yet, even aware. And it is recognition (and clarification) like yours that gives us "a shot...
...audience of about 100, largely Mather partisans, heard him proclaim the ideal that "We are not afraid of ideas. We are ready to bet our lives on the superiority of our American system." Donlan asked that men "strive to make patriotism fashionable again," and advocated "a God-fearing community of friendly people...
...Communists have given German youth leadership an ideal to strive for Goodman said, and in the case of the free Germany youth "a sense of destiny can be a very dangerous thing...
...said Vergil D. Reed, vice president of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, before 400 businessmen at the 23rd annual Boston Conference on Distribution this week. The jabberwocky, said Reed, was a hangover from the pre-1914 days when the U.S. was a big debtor nation and had to strive for "a favorable balance of trade." As a result, said Reed, most Americans still "believe profoundly that exporting is desirable, that exporters are gentlemen, scholars and benefactors of the human race, that importing is undesirable, and that importers are liars, thieves and scoundrels taking food out of the mouths...