Word: chichi
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...newspapers last week, big bold advertisements for mammoth summer clearance sales fought for space with the chichi ads of the new fall fashion collections. Big & little stores everywhere were trying desperately to unload their wartime inventories. They were also trying to prove to their somewhat skeptical customers that current fashions according to the L85 fabric-conservation order are really haute couture...
...Cinemactress Mary Astor in The Merry Life of Mary Christmas, a hackneyed comedy series about a chichi female columnist that sounded as soporific as soap opera...
...shot down in enemy waters can be rescued. One P-51 pilot was caught by Jap PT boats after they had damaged a Dumbo and driven off a submarine. Shore guns killed another fighter pilot only 100 yards off Chichi Jima in a Higgins boat after it had been dropped to him. But, between June 1944 and June 1945, the Navy alone saved 2,100 of its pilots and crewmen...
Josephine Baker, toast-colored toast of the prewar Paris stage, who weathered the Nazi occupation (despite one death report) in Morocco, put on a private fashion show to let Paris friends see the too-chichi gowns and hats she will wear on tour with E.N.S.A. (British U.S.O.). Her favorite getup: a "Russian" costume (see cut) featuring a white satin tunic, black velvet trimming, a train...
...brave beloved of these minor lyrics is a dead Jap. The song, Chichi Yo Anata Wa Tsuyokatta (Father, You Were Brave), is a sample from a book of songs which the Japs hopefully scattered through the Philippines. Most of the music is plaintive. Most of the lyrics glorify the fanatical beauties of death in battle...