Word: busting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chic pastel salon, there is a headless and barrel-chested, size 46, grey muslin model standing majestically between those of Claudette Colbert, size 32, and Norma Shearer, size 32. Adrian's loose-leaf notebook lists the Traubel specifications after those for "Temple, Shirley." They tell a sizable story: "Bust, 51 inches [Shirley's is 34"]; waist, 45½ inches; upper hips, 47 inches; lower hips, 46 inches." The Isolde costumes required from 18 to 25 yards, cost...
Traubel's personal wardrobe consists of mannishly tailored suits and simple dresses which make no attempt to hide her broad shoulders. Says Adrian: "We attract as little attention as possible to her bust. Her great bulk is disguised by making lines run up and down...
...lobby of the Manchester Guardian's smoke-grimed Victorian building, a bust by Jacob Epstein glares down on the editorial floor, where a few stubborn oldsters still scribble in longhand amid the clacking typewriters of fresh-faced Oxonians. It is the image of Charles Prestwich Scott, the Guardian's late, greatest editor, who built a provincial Whig organ into English liberalism's bravest voice...
...reopened promptly-a statement that increased the possibility of a new wage scrimmage. Some people trembled to think what would happen if federal rent controls were dropped. And some were beginning to shift uneasily at the prospect that the booming U.S. was in for a recession, if not a bust (see BUSINESS...
Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10 p.m., Mutual). Saloon Editor Earl Wilson defends his new "book," Pike's Peek or Bust. Critics: New York's ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, Stripteaser Gypsy Rose...