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...have come into a country of mirrors. Once Meriwether Lewis, exploring alone the Great Falls of the Missouri, found himself studying the water foaming over the high masses of rocks. Below him the Missouri stretched in one unruffled stream of water, flowing between smooth, grassy banks, "bearing on its bosom vast flocks of geese, while numerous herds of buffalo are feeding on the plains which surround it." His diary brimmed with these strange, lonely scenes...
...home in Oakland, Calif." But Columnist Walker (one of two newspapermen to make the Man of Distinction whiskey ads) was having a spell of undistinction.* In Austerlitz, N.Y., Pulitzer Prize Poetess Millay averred that she had never heard of such a thing. In Paris, the famed bosom friend of the late Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) announced: "I have no intention of going to the States; I am going to stay in Paris...
...weary woman of the '20s. Bouncing about behind her were the four young, mobile-faced Williams brothers, who served as a kind of combination corps de ballet and hot choir. Anything went: patter, pantomime or pratfalls, and Pauvre Suzette, a song about a young woman with a Restoration bosom. Says Kay: "We ram it down their throats...
...past decade and longer, the feminine fashion silhouette, far from following the natural lines of the figure, has been rigidly molding it into lines that are not only unnatural, but what is worse, unfeminine. Hips were strait-jacketed to nothingness; no one was supposed to have more bosom than an adolescent girl; the shoulders exaggerated and monstrous...
...course, if you want to ally yourself with women who hold off until a new fashion is on everyone else's back. . . . Put your hands around your waist, just above your hips. This is your waistline. The line goes up, rounded and small, to a defined and shapely bosom." Harper's, having first proclaimed in a kind of hypnotist's monotone that "already you are noticing [that] heavy, bulky shoulder pads are annoying you," now went unconcernedly on: "You may add to your hip-periphery by tying on extra hip pads." The real thing, it explained...