Word: bra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They have succeeded only in bringing it all with them. Lavish hotels, boites and bistros, now abound on the island. Tree-lined walks that once soothed lonely philosophers have turned into a midway featuring the most expensive and expendable freaks on earth. Black velvet bullfighters' pants, a strapless bra, a conical hat seemingly made of macaroni, and masses of straw junk-jewelry are conservative evening wear for the well-dressed lady on Capri this season, while Capri's male vacationers find a tastefully tinted athletic supporter most becoming for cocktails on the beach...
...last week a U.S. Army court-martial, headed by a major general and including a WAC lieutenant colonel, heard the prosecution accuse Dorothy Smith of "willful and premeditated murder." Shigeko Tani, her Japanese maid, testified that she found the colonel bleeding to death in bed and Mrs. Smith, in bra and panties, clutching a bloody, ten-inch-long hunting knife. A neighbor, Lieut. Colonel Joseph S. Hardin, found the defendant sitting alongside her dying husband, trying to light two cigarettes at once. She blurted out: "I'm sorry I didn't get him in the heart...
...years, and cops have orders to be polite for a few days. Police also announced that "the lid" would be clamped on in Clark Street's numerous strip joints, though Chicago lids have a way of not staying on much more firmly than a stripper's bra...
Feeble attempts all over the nation to imitate the original College lingerie raid on Radcliffe have met with little success, interested observers reported yesterday. The first successful bra-and-panty theft took place at the 'Cliffe more than a year ago, when eager Yardlings poured out of a dimly lit Union to storm Briggs and Cabot Halls for personal souvenirs...
...been presented as terribly nice, a good actress, wife and mother," said she. "This is wonderful-but it's not interesting, is it?" Hereafter, she would like to be known as a glamour girl-a sexy type who gets fan mail "that says let me have your bra strap for my memory book...