Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also an examination of weather through the ages-of how people dressed to meet it and how they were helped and hindered in doing so by the architecture of their homes and the demands of current fashion (Queen Elizabeth's habit of ripping her stylish, padded blouse open right down to the navel on warm days greatly shocked the French ambassador). All the elements that have influenced human clothing are touched: war, poverty, industrialization, poetry, hero worship, religion, royal mistresses...
...show has its very real assets: Nanette Fabray who, without losing one whit of her looks, keeps gaining in versatility and charm; and Ray Middleton, who has both voice and personality. It has some admirably lively and stylish Michael Kidd dances. It has one of Kurt Weill's most attractive scores, ranging from satiric little ditties like Progress to the full-throated tunefulness of Green-Up Time...
Shaggy Henry Wallace registered to vote in stylish Westchester County, N.Y. (he gave his occupation as poultry farmer), but forgot to bring along his high-school diploma, and had to take a literacy test. His score...
From cover to hemline, the stylish-stout Journal has become something that Editor Edward Bok, who died in 1930, would barely recognize as his baby. Last year, it did more business than the next two women's magazines, Good Housekeeping and McCall's, combined. At a quarter a copy, circulation is a booming 4,520,982, three-quarters of a million over Crowell-Collier's second-place Woman's Home Companion...
...that Magdalena is often something to be enjoyed rather than endured. Some of his music is pleasantly (and all the more pleasantly for being well sung) in the florid, full-bosomed tradition of operetta; while the best of it has real color and wit, is truly folkish or stylish. On the good side, too, are some of Jack Cole's slithery dances, and the genuine if old-fashioned showmanship of Singing Comedienne Irra Petina (Song of Norway...