Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rudolph Valentino's arrival in heaven. The faked picture came most sensationally into its own when it illustrated the bedroom horseplay of eccentric Millionaire Edward ("Daddy") Browning and his young bride "Peaches," whose litigious romance was a Graphic bonanza. The couple was shown in composographs that sometimes contained balloon dialogue even for Daddy's pet goose...
...like pulling a fly off flypaper." Even Nancy Kefauver has her tale of woe. Campaigning with Estes one time, she stepped from a plane to face a howling wind and the prop wash of several other planes. Nancy's hat was imperiled, her skirt began to balloon. Says she: "Just as I grabbed for the hat with one hand and for the skirt with the other, an eager, friendly crowd swarmed up to greet us. Someone thrust at me the usual welcoming bouquet, which I, not being endowed with three hands, frantically considered gripping with my teeth. Estes, pumping...
...raucous weeks, Italy's top TV show, Lascia o Raddoppia (Double or Quits'), which is frankly modeled after the $64,000 Question, rocked the nation. Tempest in the TV pot was balloon-bosomed Maria Luisa Garoppa, 23, a tobacco shopkeeper from northern Italy whose knowledge of Greek drama is only surpassed by her unusual measurements...
...snake-dancing, the balloon-popping and the voice-lifting finally died away-and it was this moment when the clear tone could come through. In accepting his nomination, Dwight Eisenhower devoted himself to a single subject: the future. By applying new and progressive ideas to old and established principles, the U.S. through the Republican Party could reach for a greater tomorrow. In that tomorrow, the pain of crippling disease would be vastly reduced, political wisdom would ensure justice and harmony, and the means would be at hand for "the full realization of all the good things of the world...
Dresses for Men. The chitchat on the boulevards was of Balmain's lavish, fur-trimmed evening cloaks, of Balenciaga's cocoon-like capes and Givenchy's balloon-like cocktail dresses. But wherever gores and gussets were discussed by experts, Christian Dior's name led all the rest. Mindful of the dismal failure of 1954's sad-sack flat look, Dior had turned out a collection of slinky new gowns that puff up the bosom, pinch down the rump, swoop low around the neckline. Exulted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "Dior...