Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great day had come at last. At 5:25 one gloomy morning last week, a tall, husky girl in an old green bathing suit strode down to the beach at Cap Gris Nez, France. Well displayed across her ample bosom were the words "Black Magic." She dunked a toe in the icy waters, announced that she was not really scared, and struck out in the general direction of Dover, England. For fame, for fortune, and for Scripps-Howard and United Artists, grease-coated, 17-year-old Shirley May France of Somerset, Mass. was trying to swim the English Channel...
...right down to it, the thing that broke up the Gregory marriage was the death of F.D.R. John Gregory, for ten years a devoted New Deal bureaucrat, felt "as if this death were a sword that he must take to his bosom, slowly, inch by inch." John's neglected wife Ellen suffered no such heroic tortures. A rich woman who had married John when he was a poor college instructor, she called Roosevelt "That Man." Her grief was of another kind. The Gregorys' son Timmy had been killed in the war and for that tragedy she split...
Last week, still thinking about the case of Barbara, Universal-International struck a blow for art (hip, thigh & bosom division). The studio's legal experts fashioned a new clause to go into all starlet contracts: for the first five years of her term, the starlet must yield to the company's right to make "reproductions of her physical likeness, leaving it to the discretion of publicity and advertising directors to determine what is a reasonable degree of exposure of her pulchritudinous assets . . ." As a sample of its discretion under the new charter, the studio pictured the assets...
...coming of the railroads. Through the waterway, freight barges could be towed all the way from Brownsville, Tex. to Florida-1,116 miles -without exposure to the open sea. Cried one Texan: "A shining strand linking together those jewels of progress into a fabulous necklace along the curving bosom of the Gulf...
...Couturier Jacques Fath. "If I were Rita," he mused, "I would be married in white . . . white crepe with the panels in the skirt and the decolletage like this . . ." He gestured sweepingly downward. "I always make the deep décolletage for Rita," he explained, "because she has a strong bosom. It minimizes it, but one can see very clearly still that it is there...