Word: styling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blue Neon Sign. The Communist-Socialist coalition, which has ruled San Marino since 1945, has kept the voters happy and free of worry about Satan by devoting one-third of its budget to WPA-style public works. This year, with its credit exhausted and the budget at a record 530 million lire ($923,500), the government desperately needed money to meet a new 200 million lire deficit...
...husband would have to watch himself, too. The boss of the Hungarian tailors' cooperative recently called on Hungarian shops to ban "all men's suits of American style . . . and American-style neckties...
...Villager, a prosperous (circ. 26,000), country-style weekly published in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, appeared a sentimental eulogy last week of its star columnist. "I shall always think of him," wrote Reader Katherine Caldwell, "as one of the great ... He had the lofty detachment of a genius and the warm friendliness of a child. When he stared me down with a frigid hauteur, as he sometimes did, I could have been swept up in a teaspoon. But when he moved in on me grandly and condescended to occupy my lap, I felt as though I'd made...
...what is now called "modern" eventually becomes traditional in the U.S., it will be not merely because more & more people have learned to like it. Modern architects will have been learning, too, merging clean lines, common-sense convenience and liberating openness of style with the warm overtones of home...
...Cleveland, for example, it was "nearly impossible to find attractive summer dresses ... without bobbing into one store after another. In Pittsburgh and Washington you'll likely have to look in half a dozen shops before you find [a summer suit] of acceptable size, style and price...