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...fashionable Street of the Converts, however, Rome's modistes, having no urge toward martyrdom, prudently removed all bare midriff garments from their display windows. "I have two-piece suits for anybody who asks for them," said matronly Teresa Spizzichino. "They're made so as to hold any bosom tightly and cover both navel and-er-lower hind parts." Just the same, she admitted, the one-piece variety might be better. "Eventually the ladies will take to them, not because they like them better, but simply because no woman wants to run unnecessary risks. Getting into trouble with...
...Elliott Springs's bottom harness and bosom bolster advertising [TIME, July 26] is the most refreshing contribution to the gaiety of the nation since the advent of the Petty girl...
...noble House of Marlborough, it was a far cry from the great days when John Churchill, the first Duke, fought gloriously for England at Blenheim and Sarah, his wife, conspired in the boudoir of her bosom friend Queen Anne. Since then, Britain's empire had dawned and passed high noon. In the twilight of this empire, the family name had been kept bright by a commoner named Winston Churchill. Last week, however, the Marl-boroughs were once again in the forefront of the news. In London, gossips linked the names of Princess Margaret and the 22-year-old Marquess...
...s.o.b. looked straight through me-and we used to go boating together." A British lady, laboring under the delusion that she possesses a gift for repartee, is asked by a friend why she requires such a preposterously large pin to hold a single rose in place on her ample bosom, and replies: "The better to gouge out Russian eyes, my dear! Ha ha, oh dear me!" An American lady stares across the room and says sweetly: "Look at those Russian women. No necks at all. Just chins, shoulders and breasts. No necks...
...addressed to the "hip harness and bosom bolster business," heralded a wartime camouflage cloth impregnated by a top secret process with "a per- manent odor of hibiscus, hydrangea, and old rubber boots." It concluded: "If you want to achieve that careless look and avoid skater's steam, kill two birds with one stone by getting a camouflaged callipygian* camisole." Such lusty ballyhoo - for Springs Mills' "Springmaid" fabrics - startled readers of the high-necked New York Times. It drew stares from some readers of TIME, FORTUNE, This Week and the Saturday Evening Post, which also ran the illustrated...