Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mainbocher on Paris' Avenue George V month ago, gave women the wasp-waisted effect designers favor, became the sensation of the Paris showings. A streamlined adaptation of the ancient corset, cut out on the sides, it was so stiffly boned that it made mannequins creak. But Lord & Taylor assured apprehensive women: "You don't have to worry!" Mainbocher's price: $40. A duplicate could be bought in Manhattan last week...
...merely stressing the point that coal has been discovered both by the Byrd expeditions and by other expeditions ... in the Antarctic continent. . . . Coal seams up to seven feet in thickness have been discovered . . . and estimates by such men as Sir Edgeworth David and Dr. Griffith Taylor indicate that in extent the coal reserves are possibly second only to those of the U. S. (See Antarctic Adventure and Research by Dr. G. Taylor, Appleton...
Lady of the Tropics (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "In the Orient," as M. Jacques Delaroch (Joseph Schildkraut) has occasion to tell young Bill Carey (Robert Taylor) early in this picture, "we are less concerned with changing things than with enjoying them." A half-caste who-has made himself one of the richest men in French Indo-China, M. Delaroch is content to enjoy the attentions of half-caste Manon de Vargnes (Hedy Lamarr), cares nothing about her ambition to escape to Paris and change herself into a Frenchwoman. When Bill takes a good look at Manon, jumps the yacht on which...
...sure to listen in. At Young & Rubicam's request, he bustled up to Manhattan two days before the scheduled broadcast, to show his stuff. In the agency's Madison Avenue skyscraper office, before a delegation of NBC officials, Mr. Klein, who at 37 still looks like Robert Taylor, fixed his fascinating eyes on a girl stenographer. -'You are going to sleep," said he, levelly, (ito sleep, to sleep. . . ." Sure enough, off she went. Mr. Klein turned to another girl-"sleep, sleep, s-l-e-e-p"-and off she went too. Then, magically, he woke them both...
Last week in Modern Medicine, Dr. Bayard Taylor Horton and associates* of the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn* announced a new method of treating the "constant, excruciating, burning, boring" headaches of chronic alcoholics. When the system is flooded with alcohol, large amounts of histamine, a protein derivative, pour into the blood stream. Somehow, said the doctors, the histamine expands blood vessels in the head, causes hangover headaches. Strangely enough, they found that "immunizing" injections of minute quantities of histamine brought permanent relief to 65 patients, no improvement to ten patients...