Word: wears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business. This was considerable. First U. S. designer to challenge Paris successfully, first to show U. S.-designed clothes in Paris, first foreign designer invited to show her stuff in the Soviet Union, Elizabeth Hawes believes in "style," a quality in a dress which enables its purchaser to wear it happily for three years. Style changes about every seventh year. On the other hand, the fashion world is a dizzy merry-go-round of superficial changes which enable mass manufacturers to sell cheap, ill-fitting, flimsy garments by the million...
That Pres Dillard is in trade (banking) is bad enough, but that he neglects his lady for business is worse. To chastise Pres, Julie wears red to the Mardi Gras' Olympus Ball, where unmarried girls traditionally wear white. To chastise Julie, Pres dances her feet off while proper and white-frocked New Orleans belles primly withdraw to the sidelines. That night Julie's good night to Pres is a slap fully as resounding as that which Scarlett O'Hara deals to Ashley Wilkes to give Gone With the Wind its real start. When Pres goes, Julie...
...their Communist or Socialist views, giving them the cat-o'-nine-tails. In the Jewish quarter of Vienna boys were flogged, the eyes of old men watered as their beards were jerked. Nazis spat in the faces of Jewesses, and almost everyone whether Jew or Aryan was soon wearing a swastika. Later Jews were forbidden to wear them. The arrest by Nazi pagans of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer was incessantly rumored, but his Palace ran up the Nazi flag, and His Eminence exclaimed: "Thank God there has been no bloodshed...
Publisher Saunders had Artist Thomas Cromwell Corner paint a portrait of Artist Brödel wearing the sort of rumpled blue suit which Johns Hopkins medicos have seen him wear for 44 years. And at a jolly party in Philadelphia last week Mr. Saunders presented the portrait, to be hung in Johns Hopkins near the famed Sargent picture of the Four Doctors† who organized that medical school...
...sales talks and demonstrations of Daddy Grace Toothpaste, Daddy Grace Cold Cream, Daddy Grace Hair Straightener. Pastors also hawk the Grace Magazine, a "miraculous publication" over which prayers are said as it goes through the presses. Believing that this journal has the power to heal, members of the cult wear copies of it strung around their necks or under their clothing...