Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Designer Geissmann gets her new business rolling smoothly, she intends to see if she can manufacture comfortable, yet stylish, women's shoes. Says she: "Shoes now are outrageous...
...dropped out of it too. Or at any rate out of last week's half-Ways and Means, Family Album, Red Peppers (this week: Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play). Ways and Means, telling about a stony-broke but determinedly gay couple visiting in a stylish Riviera villa, and Family Album, in which a Victorian family drink themselves out of mourning Papa's death into welcoming it, had always seemed pretty trivial. But last week they also seemed pretty trashy, and not much fun. Only Red Peppers, an onstage-backstage-onstage chronicle of a pair...
Died. Herbert J. ("Herb") Pennock, 53, slender, stylish Yankee southpaw during the golden '20s (and more recently general manager and revitalizer of the perennially futile Phillies); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...most part things remained wonderfully unchanged: this highborn troupe whose ancestors ushered half the Savoy operas into the world has long subdued individual talent to group traditions. At moments their work might seem more traditional than talented; but the D'Oyly Carters remained the most stylish and polished of G. & S. performers, the most grandly operatic as they trilled, the most augustly pompous as they marched, the most blatantly patrician as they tapped their fans...
Uneasy people saw flying saucers in the air. Women, prodded by the dress manufacturers, draped their figures in the New Look which, like all new fashions, was becoming only to the stylish. Race prejudice still showed its ugly head. Senator Bilbo .was stopped at the door of Congress and went back to the South to die, but Willie Earle was lynched in Greenville, S.C., and 31 men who were tried for the crime were freed...