Modern cottons take high style in 1937 prints
The article praises chic cotton fashions from house frocks to evening wear, noting bold prints, color contrasts, and affordable glamour. It highlights outfits shown in a Chicago Merchandise Mart style clinic, detailing gowns with gypsy sashes, spaghetti trims, peasant blues, and Gaucho hats, all illustrating the season’s trend toward bold stripes, plaids, and East Indian motifs.
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Merchandise Mart
Chicago
South America
Voguish Silk Net by Cherie Nicholas
Cherie Nicholas praises black silk net as a versatile, high quality party dress fabric. Paris shows strong enthusiasm for black net, noting it pairs with slips in plaid, striped, or floral prints. The gown featured offers an Empire decolletage and elegant styling.
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Cherie Nicholas
Paris
Fashions Call for Great Yardage
Fashions favor abundant yardage as leading designers push fabrics to the forefront. Ballerina skirts in layers of stiff silk and net bodies draw inspiration from Degas exhibits in Paris and New York. Evening gowns may use forty yards of silk, while Schiaparelli styles appear in silk net or printed silk.
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Degas
Paris
New York
Schiaparelli
Cotton Laces Lead Daytime Frocks In Spring Styles
Fashion forecasters declare cotton laces will dominate daytime dresses this spring and summer. Street-length lace frocks in tailored styles offer smart practicality with patterns ranging from bold floral to geometric designs. Lace outfits stay fresh from day to club, adding coolness and a decorative note to sports dresses too.
Chamberlains and Taft in a shifting political mood
In this column the writer surveys Neville Chamberlain's fiscal stance and leadership style as Britain faces debt and rearmament costs. It also highlights Charles P. Taft's rising profile within liberal-conservative debates and notes his wartime service and leadership roles.
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Ironmonger-Statesman
York
Kaufman
Connelly
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
England
Chamberlain
Britain
Birmingham
Old Joseph
Sir Austen
Neville
Exchequer
Maynard Keynes
The Brightest Comet of 1843 Shines Across Sky
The brightest and most spectacular comet on record appeared in 1843. It was visible in daylight, its tail over 200 million miles long, sweeping the sky horizon to horizon.
Foreign Phrases and their English Equivalents
A list of translated foreign phrases with brief English meanings. Includes Latin and French terms such as Ad nauseam and Pater patriae. Each entry pairs a phrase with its explanation, covering moral cautions and common idioms.
Mark Twain's Publishers Pay Out Huge Royalties After Death
Mark Twain, the best paid American author, earned substantial royalties from Harper’s after 1896 as sole publishers. Since his 1910 death the firm has paid over 1.25 million dollars in royalties, excluding stage and screen earnings and his own publishing ventures.
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Mark Twain
Harper's
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Yale
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Hamilton County
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Famous
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Phillips
Columbia Network
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Billy
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General Foods
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Uck
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