Word: candlestick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golf writers' dinner in New York, three colleges, an alumni dinner for Harvard and Stanford business schools, and the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley. Last week he flew off (by commercial jet) to help San Francisco's Giants, lately of New York, dedicate their new $15 million Candlestick Park (see SPORT), took the time to drop by two more colleges on a two-day tour...
This well-endowed young woman, when preparing to meet her beau, would stand the candlestick on the said protuberances whilst combing her hair. In those days, both skirts and hair were long, and, apparently, other statistics were in like proportion. At any rate, my old friend refers to them as the good old days...
Clothes, or the lack of them, naturally obsessed the fashion-conscious French amorists. During the 14th and 15th centuries, women wore disconcertingly low-necked dresses, lacing their breasts so high that "a candlestick could be placed upon them." Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, pioneered a bare-to-the-waist style at court and also stopped the show at the palace by affecting a kind of girl-in-the-Hathaway-patch masking of one breast. Brazenly posing as a Madonna, she managed to have this piquant fashion immortalized by Painter Jean Fouquet...