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Word: bosomed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stenographer suffering from "droopy bosom" should never never try to conceal the fact by falling into the posture known as "secretarial slump." The droopy area must instead be frankly and firmly put to rights, not only by "corrective exercises" at home but "on-the-job grooming" during office hours. Neglected or ignored, it will all result in "dowager's hump" as a matter of course, and while this more serious condition is not incorrigible, it is certainly in a graver category than mere slump. Indeed, the whole of Glamour Expert Lilly Dache's book is a warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glad Hatter | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...Russian mind, much broad talk of love is entirely consonant with much narrow practice of hatred; but Khrushchev, for all the verbal virtuosity of his performance, for-all the too-familiar clasping of Asia to his bosom, has been treating the intelligence of his hosts with no little contempt if he imagines that his torrent of words is enough to sweep them off their feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KHRUSHCHEV'S LIES NEW SOVIET LOW | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...means of his talent, and manages at least to convince the spectator that half an oaf is better than none. As for Anna, nothing like her kind of corset farce has come out of Hollywood since the late Marie Dressier delicately tucked a pint of hooch in her grandmotherly bosom. One moment Actress Magnani comes lurching on-camera as shapeless as a burlap bag full of cantaloupes; the next she is sleazing through the dusk in black lace with the toothsome glitter of a backstreet-walker in Naples. And she battles her way into a girdle of yesteryear with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: World's Greatest Actress | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...marching up to her suite with $50 worth of groceries in tow. She gave interviews from her bed, her hair like a black dustmop, her bag-rimmed eyes like the burning tips of cigars. Sometimes she actually lit up a small cigar and slunk about the room, her Magnanimous bosom heaving like a passionate surf as she flung out a flood of Italian. When informed that her first U.S. picture would be shown on widescreen, Magnani publicly sneered: "Poof! Widescreen!" When TV came with opulent offers, she recoiled: "Weel I have to hold a bowl of cereal een my hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: World's Greatest Actress | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...like women are so well protected from both sight and air that they might well pine away. In addition to extolling the veil, she cries, "The exposure of the bosom and back is not only repugnant, but disadvantageous to nine women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Fashions - 1956 | 12/14/1955 | See Source »

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