Word: silvering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...foreign silver-buying policy...
...difficult to have an evening gown fit properly with the right lines when the person wears low heels." At parties Adrian keeps a keen eye peeled for signs of dowdiness, can be convulsing about it afterwards. Of Tallulah Bankhead he once remarked: "She can wear one more silver fox than any other woman and still look underdressed." Adrian affects not to know the difference between one Paris couturier and another, to dislike ordinary women who copy movie styles. He recommends that the average woman should limit herself to the costumes worn by the heroines of light comedies laid in moderate...
...compromises"-eminently worthwhile since the agreement left Japan free for southern adventures. The Tokyo Nichi Nichi reported 2,000 British troops had landed in The Netherlands Indies; Suma viewed this with "extreme gravity." British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie and Tani signed an agreement on the longstanding Tientsin silver dispute; Tani did not publicly comment on the obvious inference that Japan has helpless Britain where she wants her. A treaty of friendship was signed with Thailand (Siam); Suma said it was not a non-aggression treaty, a type Japan considered unsuitable "in the light of recent examples." Japanese feelers...
Oldest of Ogontz prizes is the "Whisk-Broom Neatness" award. To girls whose rooms are spick-&-span go silver brooms engraved: "Order is Heaven's first law." This year's 16 whisk-broom winners were applauded by many a broom-winner mother and grandma (80% of the students are related to graduates) in the audience...
...Print, a literary quiz program under the guidance of Tune Detective Sigmund Spaeth, which is being broadcast by CBS on Sundays at 6 in place of the Silver Theatre...