Word: busting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neckline was definitely down: most noteworthy feature was the "Restoration bosom," in both evening and daytime dresses. Lucien Lelong hailed it as the "rediscovery of the shape of the body, emphasizing the bust." His black crepe daytime dress, Cythère, cost $360, and his evening dress, "Amphytrite," looked like a revival of the old hourglass figure. Lelong dubbed it the mermaid figure...
...three years, he splurged $360,000 for yearlings, spent a lot more on such older nags as Valdina Orphan ($100,000), Attention ($55,000) and Rounders ($50,000). His prize bust was the $66,000 spent for Pericles as a yearling in 1943. Pericles' hooves proved too brittle to carry his outsized weight well; he has never run a race...
Winnipeg's willowy, blond Lenore Johannesson, 17, had been chosen as the "typical" Canadian girl, and her specifications were published for all to read. The details: hips, 36 in., bust 36, waist 26, calf 14, ankle 8½. She is 5 ft. 8½ in. tall, weighs...
...Scaled measurements of Venus de Milo: height, 5 ft. 4 in., bust, 37 in., waist, 26 in., hips, 38 in., calf 13½ in., ankle...
...baseball's best hitter, Waterloo is spelled Chicago. Tommy Holmes has found it hard to buy a hit at Wrigley Field all season, and last week his jinx park stopped him again-after he had hit safely in 37 straight games to bust Rogers Hornsby's modern National League record of 33. (Anyhow, the Boston Braves's roly-poly, 180-lb. right fielder had modestly figured Wee Willie Keeler's ancient 44-game mark as his goal, and had not seriously hoped that his luck would hang around until he caught Joe DiMaggio's American...