Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decades, U.S. women had been striving for what fashion writers called the "American Look." This called for a certain litheness, a casual jauntiness, a healthy complexion, broad shoulders and, above all, slim hips. In pursuit of such lean, athletic elegance, women zipped themselves into elastic girdles, consigned themselves mercilessly to seven-day diets, rolling machines, long walks and meditation over calorie charts. At the same time, they luxuriated in what was known as "freedom of movement"; no joke tickled female audiences quite so much as references to corsets and the Victorian practice of lacing...
...program is 15 minutes of casual rambling. He tosses out wisecracks, parodies travelogues, concert ballads and popular songs, rasps his offbeat lyrics and thumps out his own piano accompaniment...
Hill's business is booming. There were 650 adoptions in the province last year. According to Hill, everybody concerned is happy-the natural parents (in illegitimacy cases), the foster parents and the children. Dr. Whitton called Alberta's adoption system "unhappily casual." In particular she struck at Uncle Charlie's "export traffic in Alberta babies," reported that ten percent of all adopted Alberta babies last year went to U.S. applicants, many of whom arranged the whole thing by mail. Dr. Whitton suspected that some babies had "again changed hands . . . and for a consideration" in the U.S. adoption...
...fielding, and almost the weakest hitting in the league (Outfielder Barney McCoskey is the only .300 hitter). What can't be measured statistically is their hustle, a lot of it contributed by Rookie Ferris Fain and Shortstop Eddie Joost. One day recently, Star Pitcher Marchildon was being pretty casual about his pre-game warmup. Shouted one of Connie's enthusiastic young men: "Look, if you don't want to pitch today, let somebody else do it!" Marchildon pitched...
...massive canvases which Allston prized most, and which his own age most admired-such ambitious subjects as The Angel Releasing St. Peter from Prison-seemed merely pretentious. Modern critics were impressed by the classic cleanliness of his drawings. They liked the grace and casual strength of his nudes (see cut), which Allston had sketched simply as studies for larger pictures. And they warmed to the easy, affectionate handling of portraits like that of William Ellery Channing and aging Benjamin West...