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Word: fashioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sleep Starvation Tries Looks!" cried the fashion column of London's Daily Telegraph last week, bravely offering health & beauty advice to a host of war-worried feminine readers. "Even the women who are accustomed to fall asleep as soon as their heads touch the pillows may be suffering from a minor form of insomnia, and the real victims of insomnia may be having a worse time than usual." To save British complexions from wrinkles etched by air-raid fears, the Telegraph offered with a straight face the following pseudo-scientific "receipts for easy sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleep Starvation | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

British Captain-Couturier Edward Henry Molyneux, slim, blond women's fashion stylist who won a British Military Cross in World War I, moved his salon from Paris to Limoges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Here's a fashion for night air raid warning . . . zip-fastened, one-piece suit . . . expanding pocket will hold a torch and compact, first-aid case . . . gas mask container is waterproof" (Debenham & Freebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Copy for War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Although M. G. M. added such embellishments as a misplaced fashion show to the Clare Boothe play that ran 19 months on Broadway in 1936-38,* The Women, like its original, is a mordant, mature description of the social decay of one corner of the U. S. middle classes. Prevented by the nature of the cast from publicizing the picture with a studio romance, M. G. M. pressagents did not discourage the assumption of fan writers that its trio of temperamental stars were engaged in a studio feud. This device worked well recently for Warners', when George Raft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

This time the chief guardian of U. S. markets was George L. Harrison, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. To aid him he had a crisis committee of nine, and after a fashion history repeated itself: as a member of the committee (as a representative of investment bankers) sat J. P. Morgan's son, slickhaired, tightlipped, amiable Henry Sturgis Morgan (aged 38) of Morgan Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: War and Commerce | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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