Word: cinderella
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...widowed and impoverished, Madame Albane de Siva had no Fairy Godmother, but she had always had very small feet. Last week when she read in Figaro that the shoemakers of Paris were holding a contest to nominate "Miss Cinderella of 1951"-the girl with the smallest feet-Madame de Siva left her tenement in Montmartre and jumped aboard the Pumpkin Coach...
...Siva stepped forward. People snickered, but the golden slippers slipped easily on to her tiny feet. Then the judge, no Prince Charming, took a look at black-frocked Mme. de Siva. Said he: "It won't do, it won't do." She was too old to be Cinderella. "But the shoe fits," she cried. Officials took the shoes off her feet, edged her, barefoot, off the platform. While she protested: "It's a scandal. I'll call the police," they hurriedly shoehorned the size3 golden slippers on the feet of a 28-year-old stenographer named...
...helicopter used to be the airplane's eccentric poor relation. It could do a few odd jobs (sea rescues, short-range shuttling), but its high cost and its lack of range and speed weighed heavily against its advantages. The Korean war turned Cinderella into a fairy princess. The helicopter's ability to take off from anywhere and to land almost anywhere made it just the thing for evacuating the wounded, supplying isolated positions, carting specialists and brass around. Most recent and spectacular helicopter mission: landing a full battalion of marines with their weapons on a mountainous front-line...
...familiar pigtails fluffed out in a new coiffure and looking quite grownup for 14, stopped in Manhattan enroute to Britain long enough to give photographers a teen-age pose. She plans to return in October for a four-month tour (at $3,500 a week) doing scenes from Shakespeare, Cinderella and Alice...
...President guffawed: "Not exactly a descamisada, eh?" Evita herself is not a bit abashed. She is quite likely to appear at a streetcleaners' rally dressed in a Paris frock and glittering with jewels. She is well aware that in the eyes of many a descamisado she is Cinderella in the flesh. With sound political instinct, she dresses the part...