Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week an "unidentified" airplane attacked and sank the 3471-ton, 424-foot U.S. freighter Steel Seafarer, second U.S. merchantman to go to the bottom since War II began. (The Robin Moor was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine...
...desk of Marshal Philippe Henri Pétain lay a proposed new constitution. It was described with understatement as calling for "a democratic electorate at the bottom checked by an aristocracy at the top." Actually the electorate was to have a voice as weak as in Germany, Italy or Russia-as can be seen from a diagram of the proposed Governmental framework...
...will also have accommodations for 2,000 men, including 400 pilots - an implied promise that if the 99th turns out to be a good flying outfit the Air Forces will have more of the same kind. From top to bottom such outfits will be all black. To service the 99th's planes, guns and instruments, the Army is training 278 Negro mechanics at Illinois's Chanute Field...
Dumpling, 58-year-old Elsa Maxwell, professional party-thrower and No. 1 U.S. hedonist, will "do anything for a laugh-with me or at me." (Once, hard-pressed for a laugh, Elsa threw a banana peel on the stairs, laughed and laughed as she bounced black & blue to the bottom.) But one thing she drew the line at was writing a gossip column. So last week she turned columnist...
Bergdorf Goodman: pre-1914 tendencies with silhouettes narrowing at bottom, peg-top evening skirts, slim skirts slit to the knee, and a general up-in-front, down-in-back movement...