Word: brassi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the ad in the Wall Street Journal: "Management needs person or corporation to take complete charge of sales and production. With or without investment." In this way, Detroit's Charles S. Langs, 36, the harried inventor of Posēs (pronounced pose-ease), a strapless, wireless, adhesive brassière, hoped to get out from under a mushrooming small business which had grown too big to handle...
Perelman was just leaving a little specialty shop in the Forties (he had been buying "a black girdle with rose panels and a bias-cup brassière" for his mother) when he ran slap into Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld-a man whose "cunning ferret eyes" share pride of place with a beard as frothy as "a zabaglione." The pair of them were eventually put under contract to make a trip round the world for Holiday magazine, and the result, excellently illustrated by Artist Hirschfeld, is one of the funniest books that Perelman has written. Subtitled "Around the World...
Among newly patented inventions [TIME, May 12] you mentioned a plastic, strapless [brassière] as having "distortion point 310°." As an engineering student who is eternally reminded to pay particular heed to units of measurement, your statement leaves me guessing. Was it in angular or temperature units...
...crews got off the mark last week, a brassièred and bewigged M.I.T. crew, which had been hiding upstream, joined the fun long enough to come skimming between them. Then Harvard pulled off to a one-length lead, and coasted on to the River Street Bridge. Thinking that was the finish line, the Harvards rested on their oars. In the confusion, the Radcliffers pulled ahead to the white marker, 50 yards away, but still thought they had lost and began the traditional peeling of shirts to the chant: "Take 'em off, take 'em off!" With great foresight...
...Brassières: "Scratch like a vegetable grater. . . . Could hold a wild bull in leash...