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After a first look at the new Paris styles, a veteran U.S. fashion specialist made his critique: "Hooray, they've finally put things-principally the bosom-back where they belong." That they had. At the annual spring fashion showings in Paris last week, the big news from dressmakers was the "return to normalcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Return to Normalcy | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Tans? Didn't even their mothers love them?). The dreaded Black-and-Tans busily rip the peace of Dublin, while in shivery cold-water attics, rust-thatched idealists plan a land where freedom would be free. An innocuous poet and his cowardly roomie stash some unwanted bombs in the bosom of an ample simpleton; she is torn off screaming by the dreaded Black-and-Tans, executed, and leaves the two with the empty feeling that they've been naughty, somehow, much in the manner young George Washington must have felt...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Shadow of a Gunman | 2/7/1959 | See Source »

...April...well, as we picked up the assignment, my shoulder brushed her bosom, hard. The bosom was hard. It was accidental, but she smiled in a small, familiar...

Author: By M.h. Reeves, | Title: A Chimney of Nasturtiums | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

...costumes matched the sets: an indeterminate sausage-roll garment for ample Soprano Rysanek, an orange-colored Raggedy Ann wig for Soprano Simionato. a short man's nightgown for the Pharaoh. The company's acting was at best competent, at worst ludicrous, especially Soprano Rysanek's lurching, bosom-clutching assault on the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Raggedy Ann in Aïda | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the yen for warmer graces dwelled in the New England bosom, plus a nostalgia for the London of old, plus a prophetic desire for the bigger and better. It demanded houses which were to be passing fayre, in the language of the time, houses which were to represent social status. And so, when the satanic redmen had at last been driven from Beacon Hill, and the kinddom of God more firmly established, the seeds of a Londonesque Boston began to sprout forth...

Author: By R. P. Gilman, | Title: The Plainstyle In Three Dimensions | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

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