Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since it was cited by the U.S. Post Office last month for naughtiness (mostly because of its lithe, leggy, lightly clad "Varga Girl" drawings), the magazine Esquire has been crusading zealously in its own behalf. In a series of advertisements in newspapers and trade magazines it had been preparing for its Oct. 19 hearing (at which postal examiners will determine Esquire's right to continue to use second-class mail) by back-patting itself as a soldier-sailor morale builder...
Jack Oakie and Cezar Romero try desperately to be funny but don't get far. Their nearest approach was a series of scenes in which Romero, clad sedately in a set of long woolen drawers, gallops madly through the hotel. Not especially subtle, but the audience appeared to be amused...
Midway between then & now were White Rock's angelic nymph, Kellogg's Corn Flakes' calico-clad "sweetheart of the corn" and Baker Chocolate's "La Belle Chocolatiere." .Today's climax is typified by Aircooled Motors Corp.'s (Franklin engines) current advertising illustration of a lithe and leggy air-cooled lovely clad in little or nothing and saying bithely into a phone: "Pick me up at eight . . . and we'll fly to the club...
Recently, as a seemingly endless column of NTS (Communications) men cadenced their way across the busy intersection near Littauer, the usual traffic and pedestrian jams resulted on either side of the khaki-clad marchers. Suddenly one of the feminine onlookers gave a deep sigh and exclaimed to her friend...
...octopus (Edward McNamara) through her newspaper. It also reports the help she gets, in dire extremity, from a hobo ex-journalist (James Gagney). En-route to victory the hobo develops an interest in the old lady's niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those cinemaddicts who like James Cagney chiefly for his fleet footwork and persuasive paws. As a period document, Johnny Come Lately bogs down neither in history nor documentation. Its historicity is chiefly...