Word: bras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guests (200 of them from Hollywood) milled past dinner-jacketed newsboys at the entrance, stripped the lobby's $1,000 orchid-studded trees bare, guzzled 1,200 bottles of champagne before the banquet. Shamrocks bloomed everywhere-on ashtrays, wastebaskets, even on the panties and bras that McCarthy presented to his women guests. (The men got cowboy boots from the hides of prize cattle that provided the steaks.) The crowd whooped it up so hard that speeches by McCarthy, Texas' Governor Beauford Jester and Cinemactors Pat O'Brien and Leo Carrillo had to be put off until midnight...
Last week Dorothy & Dick celebrated its first anniversary. Dorothy had started it mostly for fun, but in one year it had become one of radio's most popular (800 letters a week) and lucrative husband-&-wife acts.* From their 20 sponsors (Bien Jolie Foundations and Bras, Taystee Bread, Sapolin Paint, etc.) Dorothy and Dick milk $1,000 a week. Said Dorothy, who reasons that she might as well get paid for talking at breakfast: "It's still...
...Prince Matchabelli perfume. The battered furniture, handed down for cash from generation to generation, has been junked for double beds, ruffled curtains, flowered drapes and potted plants. Hot plates glow busily under home-cooked dinners. Dartmouth plans to erect a lattice fence to hide the disturbing sight of bras and panties drying on the clothesline...
...viennent, jusque dans nos bras...
...year book pictures are all in the hands of their owners, but it seems that several strayed a bit before arriving. At any rate, after seeing pictures of Jock Brunner, Bras Pryor, and Norm Brown, the Germans have voted our class "the group by whom we would most like to be invaded...