Word: cartwheels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orly Airfield the temperature stood at 90° when Argentina's touring First Lady, dazzling in a white suit, white shoes, white handbag and a big white cartwheel hat, stepped out of a DC-4. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault came forward, bowed, kissed her hand. "On behalf of France," said he, "I welcome you warmly and affectionately." Then a motorcade whisked la belle blonde, as Parisians called her, to the Ritz...
...speech they liked the best was by red-haired Novelist Fannie Hurst, who rose majestically in a black cartwheel hat, a slinky black dress and an egg-sized, green-stoned ring. Her topic: "Politics and the Sleeping Beauty." Women, said she, "regulate their lives according to the male's ideas of the ideal of women's status ... according to a clock which does not move forward but eternally marks the hour-sex o'clock. . . ." She advised them to "gain dignity" by taking part in politics, running for Congress...
...Hollidge, Ltd. did a rush business on ostrich-plumed jobs at $65. Chicago's Bes-Ben sold all the floppy, fancy tuscan straws it could turn out at $52.75 and up. "Mmmm, but you'll look delicious," burbled Manhattan's Arnold Constable over a "high-crown cartwheel . . . with pastel blooms encased in spun, sugary net," all for $45. Macy's offered an open-crowned straw loaded with daisies...
...grass poked up green in the Bois, and the Paris air began to shed winter's tired grey. But spring's true heralds on the boulevards were new bonnets-a straw cartwheel blooming with daisies, a rowboat with roses, a green-&-pink aviary and other elegances of haute couture...
...Doherty treated a press photographer to a fine demonstration of the simple, or one-ply, nose-thumb. The gesture had true sweep, high photogenic quality (see cut), and was generally conceded to be the most striking cultural event in the Metropolitan since Lawyer Richard Knight's historic cartwheel in the same room (TIME, Dec. 11, 1939)From the Met's first week it seemed obvious that Manhattan's third wartime opera season was going to sound very much like, and sell even better than, its second. Every performance (reflecting the current boom in Manhattan show business...