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Ehud Barak, the Israeli Prime Minister, doesn't care much about how things look. The tanks he supervised as an army officer were among the military's dustiest. The suits he wears as a civilian are unmodish and occasionally ill fitting. Points of ceremony do not rate with him. He refused to take umbrage when the Syrians sent merely their Foreign Minister to a peace summit with him last December--or to be insulted when his negotiating partner would not shake his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courage Under Fire | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...business. He lost money steadily; Prohibition nearly ruined him; for the first time in history the Brittons could not afford to winter in Manhattan. "Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Britton and daughter Ellen, will spend this winter in their house on Riggs Island." Schoolma'am Ada Whitehouse had set her unmodish cap at young Warren Chubb but Chubb was trying to hitch his wagon to Rae Britton. So, although Ellen Britton deserved the prize, that was why "Florence Widgell won the Sixth Grade Oratorical Contest in our School House Tuesday. A sterling silver medal was presented. Good work, Florence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Social Notes | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...come away from Lane Bryant's with the comfortable feeling that 20 superfluous pounds have been deftly hidden in the subtle folds of the Bryant draperies. And, though the business was begun largely with the idea of catering to the naturally stout woman (TIME, June 4), the unmodish evidences of approaching motherhood supplied additional market with which the Bryant stores are now most prominently associated. They have, indeed, made a further extension and now do a brisk trade in layettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Large Bryant Figures | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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