Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morris immediately lit on the record of the mayor's administration, and started pecking like a woodpecker on a hollow tree. It was a difficult feat since O'Dwyer had run the Big City in competent, if unspectacular fashion and had managed to avoid scandal. Morris cried that O'Dwyer should have done more. Also, he had discovered that New York had bookies...
Stroock & Co. had hardly wiped off the red ink from two bad years when Mrs. Murphy went to work. A graduate of Spring Valley (N.Y.) High School and Manhattan's Lusk Institute (now defunct), she learned fashion and fabrics by going to night school and hobnobbing with Manhattan's Seventh Avenue garment makers. Soon she was designing new weaves and color combinations and plugging the fleecy fabrics that go into the "Stroock Look." She was put in charge of advertising and publicity; when war came she helped supervise the company's mill at Newburgh, N.Y., was made...
After a round of luncheons, a fashion show and sightseeing, the bankers reelected Mrs. Bernice D. Parks, 45, president. Mrs. Parks started in as a $110-a-month secretary, is now assistant treasurer of Boston's Provident Institution for Savings, one of the oldest mutual savings banks in the country. She thinks that women are right at home in banking. After all, she says: "Seventy percent of the wealth of this country is in the hands of women...
There is a longstanding and eminently wise football custom which dictates that neither the coaches nor the school newspaper of any institution beaten in a football game should say anything against the winning team which might imply that the game was won in an unfair or immoral fashion...
...spite of this custom, the Michigan Daily yesterday printed an article which claimed that Army went out of its way to inure key Wolverine players and in general performed in an illegal and unsportsmanlike fashion in the recent meeting of the schools. It further stated that Army repeated its immoral performances against Harvard, citing the injuries to Charley Roche and or Jimmy Noonan as evidence. Here is precisely what the Daily said...