Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David A. Smart is a onetime stenographer who in 1937 exulted: "Why didn't somebody tell me about this publishing game before? It's a cinch." Dave Smart had twice hit the jackpot: with Apparel Arts, a men's fashion magazine which began paying off soon after he started it in 1931, and Esquire, which, started in 1933, became a hit overnight. Esquire's Editor Arnold Gingrich packed it full of cheaply bought stories by big-name authors and flashy risque color cartoons, made it the greatest smoking-room magazine of all time. Circulation zoomed until...
This is written so that you may know I am not oblivious to the generous fashion in which you dealt with me in TIME, August...
Such reports from the opening of Paris fashion shows have grated on Nazi ears for the past fortnight as Schiaparelli followed Mainbocher, and Paquin, Patou and Balenciaga demonstrated that, whoever runs the world, Paris intends to go on making his wife's clothes...
...could accuse Dr. Ley of hating beauty . . . [but] WHAT IS THE USE OF THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST WASTE IF THE FASHION INDUSTRY DEVALUATES TEXTILES? . . . Other nations elect queens with beautiful legs, beauty queens, naked queens, but Germany honors women with many children and therewith honors a beauty that is uninfluenced by any fashions...
Author Arlen, still a fashion plate at 43, is now in Greece with his wife, the Countess Atalanta Mercati, who is as beautiful as her name, and their two children. Nowadays his highest ambition is "to write a book which I can read after I'm fifty without nausea." The Flying Dutchman, pure Arlenquinade...