Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trying his first law case, Riesman put the judge to sleep. Since, he has tried hard not to bore anybody-or to be bored...
Actually she was his third. Soekarno divorced wife No. 1 for childlessness, which Indonesian women agreed was good and sufficient cause. Then in 1942 he married a charming 18-year-old named Fatmawati, who bore him two boys and two girls. But last week the emancipated clubwomen of Indonesia learned of wife No. 3. Perwari, Indonesia's leading women's organization, sent out the word to other women's clubs: President Soekarno had secretly married a 3 2-year-old divorcee with five children last June; his wife Fatmawati had not even been consulted, as Moslem custom...
Jane Digby, Lady Ellenborough (1807-81) was a superb horsewoman and "the greatest beauty of her day." Jane thought that she could find salvation in "romantic relationships." Divorced by her husband for adultery with an Austrian prince, Jane moved to Paris, bore her princely lover two children, took up briefly with Novelist Balzac ("I have since noted," said he dryly, "that most women who sit a horse well are lacking in tenderness"). From Paris, Jane rode on to Bavaria, became the mistress of King Ludwig I, married a Bavarian baron and bore two more children. Swept off her feet...
When a catlike creature named Simple J. Malarkey first entered the swampy world of Pogo, readers of Walt Kelly's comic strip noticed that he bore a marked resemblance to Joseph R. McCarthy of Washington. D.C. Any doubts they might have had as to Malarkey's true identity vanished a fortnight ago with the introduction of another Pogo character, an Indian named Charlie, who was pictured kicking an acquaintance below the belt...
...gasps subsided along Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honore, and the fashion editors took a second look, they saw that Designer Christian Dior's flat look was not so flat after all. Fewer than a third of Dior's new dresses minimized the bosom, and even these bore no resemblance to the droopy formlessness of the Jazz Age. Most dresses were molded from hipbone to mid-bust, creating a long, svelte torso, a high and undeniably sexy bust line. The Parisian models looked more as if they were holding their breath than suffering from collapsed chests. Said Chairman David...