Word: boudoired
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stylistically her book is as flat and wit less as a harmonica rendition of the Liebestod, but it does furnish a few peeks -between boudoir blackouts - at some of the men who make art a mystery...
...Argentina's far west and the Province of San Juan, where Perón supporters had split. Because their previous campaign train had been stoned and shot at, the Tamborini crowd now took pains to pack Colt .45s and palm-sized Mauser .25s (the boudoir special...
...teeth," was sipping coffee with whipped cream and reciting snatches of patriotic poetry to his wife. She dreamed of passion when not stuffing herself with lush pastry. Grandson Franz-Ferdinand was goggling at a peep show entitled: "For Men Only . . . Piquant Photographs." Granddaughters Wally and Adrienne were in the boudoir, shining up their eyes with belladonna. In short, the Austrian Empire was on its last legs...
...than any white woman in the world." A soldier asked : "Do you mean that American women use too little or too much or do not use it judiciously?" Replied Labourdette: "American women collect perfume bottles as Indians collect scalps. They like to have plenty of expensive bottles on their boudoir tables, but they don't know...
...selling trick was to keep men's cosmetics as far away from the boudoir as possible, give them a hairy-chested appeal. Hollywood's Courtley, Ltd. said gruffly: "A shaving lotion for he-men only." (But Manhattan's Faberge, Inc. was selling a cologne: "Aphrodisia for Men.") Courtley Ltd.'s bubble baths had ruddy, full-blooded titles: "Chukker," "Steeple Chase," "Irish Moss." Parfums L'Orle Inc. of Manhattan had "Buckskin" and "Touchwood" perfumes ("Just for your handkerchief, of course") at $5 an ounce. Another managed to combine the smell of "the finest cognac, cedarwood, Russian...