Word: boudoired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, women were offered a new piece of boudoir equipment-a transparent, zippered hood which covered the entire head, looked like something designed to be worn in the rarefied atmosphere of the planet Venus. It was supposed to protect them from the horrors of "messy makeup" when they slipped their dresses...
...owned a million-dollar-a-year business, but he was 65, and knew that he was too sick to run it any longer. So Brooklynite Morris Hirshfield gave up the E. Z. Walk Mfg. Co. (boudoir slippers), as he had once given up his cloak & suit business. He was free to paint at last...
...diversified fare offered at the local lyceum, "Lady Luck" comes off as the more entertaining of the lightweight screenings. A sly yarn about the gambler who combined good luck at the board with a full house in the boudoir, the film moves smoothly along paced by the tangy dialogue taken straight from the gaming tables. Some of the best scenes involve Jimmy Gleason, Hollywood's finest con-man, bluffing Frank Morgan, no sucker himself--while various types of bait get their just dues...
Married. Ilka Chase, 41, willowy, whimsical radio and stage actress, author of boudoir best-sellers (Past Imperfect, In Bed We Cry); and Dr. Norton S. Brown, 42, her personal physician; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev., three days after Author Chase won a divorce from second husband William Murray. First husband: Actor Louis (The Magnificent Yankee) Calhern...
...frosty and vigorous 64, "was beauty triumphant; alive, challenging, insistent; a brilliant attack on the sex of every man." From the instant of her awakening (around noon) to the moment when her gorgeous form slides between the sheets once more (6 a.m., usually), Chloe's boudoir rings with the anguished moans of a slew of infatuated males, ranging from struggling artists to doddering peers, and mostly with names like Claude, Everard, Cecil and Barnaby. Declares Author Milne positively, "There isn't a duke or a millionaire, a genius or a Cabinet Minister, who wouldn't marry...