Word: chiffoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chintz dressing room, Margaret put on her own makeup, straightened the folds in her voluminous white chiffon skirt. She was calm and confident. She had a master of orchestral accompaniment in balding Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and he had rehearsed her carefully...
...Western observers noted an unfamiliar Russian folkway. As Molotov entered the Ministers' box, the audience began to applaud stormily; according to a fashion set by Stalin some years ago, Molotov applauded back. This went on for five minutes. Belle of the occasion was Mme. Bidault, in a grey chiffon Parisian evening gown that made Mme. Molotov look like a right-wing deviationist...
...brim. For Princess Elizabeth there were pastel evening gowns, "really romantic, with rustling, or softly flowing full skirts." For 16-year-old Margaret ("She's a nice kid," said one of the designers, "with a naughty glint in her eye"), at least one "slinky, grown-up looking, sophisticated" chiffon. "Her Majesty," wrote one reporter, "is expected to land in a misty blue, bordered with matching ostrich feathers...
...plot in the piece is about as substantial as a black chiffon nightgown and not half as exciting. Botty Grable, the first woman typist, is sent to Boston to work in an office which soon feels the impact of the distaff side as spitoons go out and chintz comes in. You won't be surprised to know that Dick Haymes is the thriving, moderately blue-blooded manager of the company. Emancipated at last, Miss Grable is soon deep in the suffrage movement, of which Mr. Haymes does not approve. Take it from there...
...heroine sometimes tried to follow threads of reality through her blacked-out mind, but her memory was "swathed in wet gray chiffon that stuck to the . . . part she wanted most to examine." One, night, in a brief moment of sanity, she thought: "Here on [a] narrow cot, clothed in a numbered nightgown, [I lie] with women who [are] insane and [I am] one of them." After almost a year at Juniper Hill, Virginia was pronounced cured-but not before she and her fellow patients had been treated to shock therapy, hydrotherapy, psychoanalytical questionings, paraldehyde dosings and old-fashioned madhouse discipline...