Word: complementation
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...wear shoes. This season the opera pump is eclipsed by the dressier models; cutouts, sandals, multi-fabrics, button 'n' beaus, colors (brilliant, shocking, startling, and good old reliable navy). Tennis shoes for classes, for tennis, yes, but be in step--you need bright accents on your feet to complement the severe lines of this season...
John Stokes '54, Chairman of the German Exchange Program, said Wednesday night that if the State Department does not advance enough funds to complement the University's part in the program the plan might fold...
Died. William Waller Hawkins, 69, former chairman of the board of the 19 Scripps-Howard newspapers, onetime (1920-23) president of United Press; of influenza; in Miramar, Calif. Quiet, pincenezed Bill Hawkins was an effective complement to dynamic Roy Howard in their 46-year working partnership. They teamed up when U.P. was founded to rival the formidable A.P.; Howard became its globe-trotting president-reporter-publicist, Hawkins the steady harvester of clients, organizer of bureaus. Hawkins succeeded Howard as U.P. chief, followed him to Scripps-Howard, succeeded him in 1936 as board chairman when Howard became president...
...exclusive club in London, it became the churlish fashion to describe a badly mixed cocktail by saying: "It tastes as if Douglas had been polishing at least half his medals in it." Not long ago, Fairbanks in impeccable white tie & tails strode into White's with a full complement of medals and orders gleaming on his chest. An effete British voice broke the hushed silence. "Enter Captain Hornblower," it said...
...taking over the great house this month, Mrs. Eisenhower will be assisted by a present complement of 64 (full staff: 72) servants, most of them old retainers, wise in the ways of Washington. If she abandons her lifelong zeal for running a house and never voices a command,, the house will run well. But if she wants to order every meal, redecorate any or all of 35 upstairs rooms (her favorite colors: rose and pale green), shift Lincoln's famed 7-ft. bed, or plant geraniums in the bathtubs, she has every right...