Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Murray Anderson's Almanac), got off some mouthfuls between mouthfuls. On Englishmen as lovers: "The trouble with most of them is inbreeding-and eating all those Brussels sprouts." On a top-heavy Hollywood starlet: "It's amazing how far a girl can crawl on her bosom...
Despite fresh educational ideas and expanded facilities at the university, the Brown man is worried that he is not accepted in the bosom of the Ivy. The Brown Daily Herald asks "Are We Ivy?" The administration feels Brown holds an unjustifiably low position on the Ivy fringe. Self-consciously the 190-year-old Providence university looks at the rest of the League with puppy-dog eyes and asks recognition for its new high academic standards...
...point, Miss Egypt chanced to see an official contest card on which someone had remarked of her bosom: "Very good-for an Egyptian." In patriotic wrath, belittled Egypt locked herself in her room. Seconds later, a bellboy dashed through the hall and shouted, "Now she wants a tape measure...
...writer described them, "the pianoforte, the music box, the singing of birds; the elegant drapery . . . the struggling sunbeam peering through doors of stained glass . . ." But production was upped from a few pictures to thousands a day, partly because of a group of go-getting photographers nicknamed "blue bosom boys." (As in TV, they could not properly photograph white shirt fronts.) Then photography passed two major milestones: ¶ U.S. picture journalism began with Mathew Brady, who passionately took up photography at 16. A weak-eyed, blue-spectacled portrait photographer, he decided in 1861 to cover the Civil War ("A spirit...
Another legend that dies hard is that Arnold's wife, lovely Peggy Shippen of the "heavenly bosom," was an innocent bystander. Author Flexner shows that she was bosom-deep in the mess from the start, and egged her husband on. On the evidence, Flexner suggests that the idea of turning traitor may have been hers in the first place. As much a woman as a conspirator, she added pretty feminine requests for silks and satins to her husband's treasonable letters to Major John André. That she had known André when the British held her native...