Word: fall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even without this revealing hint of what the Roosevelts talk about at table, last week's conference would have been newsworthy. It brought out 1) that Eleanor Roosevelt intends to be inveigled into no wasp-waist corsets this fall; 2) that the delicate White House problem of arranging diplomatic functions this season has been given over to the State Department. The President last week, for reasons of policy (see p. 11), kept an extremely circumspect silence, and Eleanor Roosevelt had to make news enough for two. She did it by expanding, under polite questioning, on her skins-and-pockets...
...With the fall of Warsaw ancient and historic "Holy Poland" was again without a capital (see p. 32). However, through five centuries, half-a-dozen major wars and three partitions until Hitler & Stalin made the fourth, Poland has endured often as a burning ideal in the hearts of the Polish people rather than as a political fact. It was therefore no surprise last week when a brand new Polish Government popped up in Paris. At the Polish Embassy there it was announced that just before President Ignacy Moscicki fled from Poland to Rumania (TIME, Oct. 2) he secretly resigned...
...Radcliffe girls came stag. Within the staid and ivied walls of Brooks House, dancing is taboo. But there is a rumor that Harvard's social service center will continue its work of breaking down traditional Harvard-Radcliffe antipathy by sponsoring a tea dance later this fall...
...fall of 1939 lends a bewildering touch of the Princeton-Yale-Harvard manner of dress to a Hanover once resplendent in overalls. The principal clothiers of the town are featuring better materials and higher prices. On the streets we hear for the first time in our college career the small talk of the well dressed man, of "shetlands," and "whalebones," of "herring bones," and "tailored by." Dress has become for the first time at Dartmouth, not a physical consideration, but mental and spiritual as well...
Lowell House will hold the first fall Dance of the season on Saturday, October 21, in the House dining room. Don Gahan and his Orchestra, with the Dixon Sisters as vocalists, will play from 8 to 12 o'clock...