Word: bazaar
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...destroyers marched in stately file through the treacherous Uraga Channel into Tokyo Bay. It was almost too smooth. Said a dry Britisher, watching Brigadier General William T. Clement and a few marines raise the U.S. flag over Yokosuka's terraced naval base: "Now he'll declare the bazaar open...
Meanwhile the two major fashion magazines described the new fashions. Said Vogue: "New York fashion houses . . . have staged a sort of bloodless silhouette revolution . . . and no L85 rules broken. . . ." Said Harper's Bazaar: "Hide your flat stomach. . . . Unsquare your shoulders . . . shoulders are curves on sleeves blown out like blown glass...
Both Vogue and Harper's Bazaar were stoutly blowing a horn for retailers, manufacturers and designers. Since war began, designers have proudly advertised their ability to do much with little cloth-and each year have managed to come up with something...
This year, with a neat banishment of old pencil-slim lines, they did it again. Skirts were longer; waists were laced in; sleeves were rounded at the shoulders. Some ensembles hugged, some billowed and sagged. Hats flared, swirled, ran or circled monotonously (counseled Harper's Bazaar: "Be round-headed...
...Cincinnati's astonishment, the Trollopes proceeded to erect what one traveler described as "the great deformity of the city" - a brick bazaar with "Gothic windows, Grecian pillars ... a Turkish dome, and Egyptian devices." Therein, they planned to sell the gewgaws of Manchester and Birmingham to the savages of Cincinnati...