Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Help Wanted. To hire scarce women workers before the Christmas buying rush reaches its peak, Chicago mail-order firms, chain department stores and State Street emporiums competed with each other in alluring help wanted ads. Promised in some: daily siestas, convenient transportation, club rooms, discounts on merchandise, library on premises, home atmosphere, air-conditioned offices, low-cost coffee shops...
...from broad, padded shoulders. The form-fitting coat flopped well below the hands that hung from leg-of-mutton sleeves. A white belt held the trousers chest-high over a cocoa-colored shirt and white tie. Above the ankles were ten-inch hemstitched stuff cuffs. A zoot watch chain swung low from the right pants pocket...
...frame of mind. The war leader emphatically pronounced that he would not be a party to any move altering the re-war colonial status quo, and the Viceroy's action was aimed at seeing that this policy could be effected without the menace of a united India. The whole chain of events clarifies a hitherto misty picture...
...Seabrook's earliest boyish pleasures had been to gaze at pictures of women in chains. One day Grandmother Seabrook had shown him "a throne on which a girl sat, robed in green . . . her ankles bound by shining metal circlets joined by a gleaming chain." Young Seabrook pressed his hands against her ankles "until my own hands held and drew the chains tighter." From that time on, William had two ambitions-to be a writer like his grandfather (editor of the American Sentinel) and to chain women. As a boy he lassoed little girls. As a man he spent...
...chain of events which brings Bridges to his present position, waiting for the California court decision which, appealed, will send his case on to the Supreme Court, is one of long conflict...