Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Balmain's long, shapeless tubular evening dresses which 'engage the feet.' Also, his pure-white ermine skirt with a sweeping train-these sweeping things help, since there is a servant shortage...
...bums and bohemians, philanthropists, philosophers, progressives and an odd Communist diplomat. Both scurried to sign up for Communist-line outfits, e.g., American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. American Peace Mobilization, National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions. He led a Communist-backed protest march (on the train) from New York City to Albany (1947) to urge Govenor Dewey to freeze rent controls in New York. Both were heady for Wallace for President. 'Both broadened their contacts with Communists (she felt, it was suggested, that she had to seek and find discipline; he just tagged along), joined...
...doubt that Adenauer was going to win it (whether his party as a whole would win a majority or merely a plurality was the real question). The man most determined to erase any doubt was peppery, spartan Chancellor Adenauer himself. By motorcar and by special, five-car diesel train, Konrad Adenauer was campaigning with the verve and enthusiasm of a man half his age, and the knowledge that his age is one of the few effective arguments his opponents have against him. In Celle, citizens looked on delightedly while Adenauer skipped up the steps of city hall, his coattails flying...
...onetime Virginia country girl to whom Victor hopes to transfer some of the Elvis Presley appeal. A veteran of such folksy outfits as the Dixie Playboys and the Shenandoah Valley Boys, Darlene was signed on the basis of a demonstration record, loaded aboard the Victor March of Dimes train for a tour of the country. Her high, nasal voice and tub-thumping beat went over big at whistle stops and local auditoriums. Two of her singles-My Boy Elvis and Little Bit-got on the charts, and with her latest disk, Love Me to Pieces, just out, Victor is publicizing...
...valley view) unreels with near monastic austerity. Daily except Sunday Cozzens rises at 5:15 a.m., brews a pot of tea for himself and fixes coffee for Bernice, who gets up at 5:45. In his 1957 station wagon he drives Bernice to the Trenton station for an early train to Manhattan, then returns for a breakfast of scrambled eggs, orange juice and milk. He works from 8 to noon (he is a two-finger typist). Says Cozzens, who spent eight years on By Love Possessed: "For every three pages I write, I throw away two. On a good...