Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anyone who respects an original idea such as atomic duck eggs will be tempted to see "Mr. Drake's Duck." Unfortunately, he will find little originality and less humor in Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.'s web-footed producing and acting...
...this sort of work, he deserves one. They are magnificent. Probably the most imaginative number is one worn by Jan Farrand, the Fairy Queen, who enters with an enormous train. This train she later converts into her home for the night, much as a spider who spins her web...
...consisted of high tariff walls unilaterally built by protection-minded congressmen. Secretary of State Hull's Reciprocal Trade Agreements lowered those walls somewhat, and since then substantial cuts have been made. The latest effort along this line was U.S. sponsorship of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a web of multilateral agreements set up in 1948 by which the signatories, including all ECA nations, guaranteed to lower restrictions as far as they could...
...Anderson-Thye amendment has all but torn this web apart, leaving other members of GATT with the feeling that U.S. trade policy is insincere and undependable. Already three countries, Denmark, Holland, and Canada have accused the United States at the recent GATT conference in Geneva of "impairing and nullifying" the agreement, and all that Undersecretary of State Willard Thorpe could do at the time was admit...
...offered maternity-like tent coats ("the green cone"); Balenciaga suits had elbow cuffs like parachutes. One Schiaparelli model looked like an oldtime Bloomer Girl (see cut) in an evening gown consisting of a short halter and harem-type underskirt. By comparison, conservative Hattie Carnegie's trim, attractive "spider web" evening gown looked just the thing most U.S. males would like to see their wives...