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...evident. Schiaparelli offered a model with a bustle in front. Lelong put jeeps on charm bracelets. Agile, aging (70) Madame Jeanne Lanvin (who served iced drinks to shivering patronesses} showed a slinky, black, backless, low-front evening dress called "Liberty." She also offered a simple frock of palest pink named "Free France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Black Lace and Woolen Undies | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

There is a fairest and most illuminating time to look at a great man dead. That time for Karl Marx, holy father of Socialism of all tints, from palest parlor pink to Russianest Soviet red, is his poverty-stricken, voluminously literary period in England (1849 to his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father of Socialism | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...called automatic writing, the average grownup hesitates, comments McFee. Yet if one knows, the road from Colchester to Mersea where the whole coast at high tide is compacted of lonely islands, "of a quiet loveliness in summer with salt winds driving thick white clouds athwart a sky of palest azure," he has come close to England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOTS AND TITLES | 10/26/1923 | See Source »

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