Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Separation. Most Americans, when they hear about conflicts between "church and state," think of certain concrete issues that reach the headlines. On most of these, Murray has taken liberal and eloquent positions. Item: on government funds for parochial schools, he thinks simple justice demands it, but argues that Catholic pressure for it should be confined to argument and slow persuasion. Item: on censorship, he upholds the right of the church to guide its own faithful and to convince others with its moral judgments, but by persuasion, not boycotts. There is danger, he suggests, in reading bad books, but also "great...
MAIL ORDER LIFE INSURANCE will be a major item in the new catalogue of Chicago's Aldens, Inc., fourth largest mail order company, if the Illinois Insurance Department approves. By eliminating agents' commissions (often 50% of first-year premium), Aldens plans to sell its insurance at lower prices...
...French demoiselles of the early 1900's fall in love exclusively with young army officers with mustaches? Or were mustaches just de rigeur for all men of the period? I found myself wondering about this during some of the less enthralling moments of The Grand Maneuver, a capricious little item now showing at the Brattle...
...item both upset our stomach and gave us a headache, we naturally dropped two Alka-Seltzer tablets in a glass of water. While they fizz, we will call to your attention the fact that we have been the agency of record for Miles Laboratories for 40 years...
Generous, tailored or tight, slacks are the fastest growing item in milady's wardrobe across the U.S., with 30 million pairs sold last year v. only 6,000,000 a decade ago. The pants boom has brought a revival of the culotte-pants cut to hang like skirts-to the point where designers are now making culottes in all sizes and fabrics, including culotte Bermudas and knee-length chiffon hostess models. So popular have dressy slacks become for evening entertaining that women guests are often trapped by a kind of fashion one-upwomanship: they wear dressy frocks and high...