Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martha Stevenson Kemp Mature, blond ex-wife of Swingster Hal Kemp and Victor ("Beautiful Hunk") Mature, arrived in Manhattan from Palm Beach with a bump on her head. According to the New York Journal-American's society page, she had been jarred awake in her sleeping car, sat upright, "rapped her lovely sconce" on the upper berth...
...Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies, of Roslyn, L.I., Washington, Upper St. Regis Lake, N.Y., and Palm Beach's "Mar-a-Lago" formed a jaunty twosome (see cut, p. 43) at Palm Beach...
...girls collapsed, their fluffy hair awry. Shot in the chests, both died. They were Lourdine Livermore, 18, and Dorothy Douglas, 19, of Long Beach. Other women screamed. Swancutt fired more shots which wounded Lieut. Light and Lieut. Aldace Minard. Then he rushed from the club...
...turn down 3% from the 1941 peak; 461,573,000 pairs were produced (9% above 1939, the prewar high). This looked like a lot, but 47 million went to the military, and another 100,000,000 or so were heavy workshoes or fabric and composition numbers ranging from canvas beach & tennis shoes to strictly fireside slippers...
Less Chichi. Nonetheless, most of the chichi left in shoes is in ersatz materials-a red fabric rose or composition cherries at the toe of a plain leather pump, multicolored raffia beach sandals, bright wooden clogs, etc. The only frivolous style note in 1944 women's shoes is the high ankle strap (see cut, p. 82). The real style is the "classic" day shoe that can go anywhere and keep going...