Word: consuelo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strapless suit looked too much like underwear. "This stuff may be O.K. for Havana," he said, "but how about East Cupcake, Iowa? That's where I'm from. I carry it around up here in my head." Somehow, on a Havana Sunday morning. Wardrobe's Consuelo Gana managed to produce a selection of a dozen more bathing suits to the measure of East Cupcake. And when the show's Louis (Gordon Hathaway) Nye lacked a sharpie's tie for a gambling sketch, she found one in the lobby around a guest's neck...
...Iconoclast was a potpourri of flamboyant comment on all things, laced with spleen, belly laughs, erudition, ribaldry and scorpion satire. Often intemperate, rarely constructive, Brann could be-and was-accused of doing more harm than good. But it was hard to fault his eloquence. On the approaching marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough, he mocked: "The fiancé of Miss Vanderbilt is descended...through a long line of titled cuckolds and shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty, bartering to parvenus for bread an empty dukedom bought with a female relative...
...Vermont, the nation's first woman lieutenant governor, Consuelo Northrop Bailey, 56, declared that she would not seek office in 1956, thereby upsetting a long-standing Vermont tradition that the lieutenant governor inevitably runs next for governor. Since flouncing into politics 30 years ago, Consuelo Bailey has handily defeated male opponents for such offices as county prosecutor, state representative, state senator, speaker of the Vermont house, and lieutenant governor. Understandably nervous male politicos noted that while last week's statement took her out of this year's gubernatorial race, it carefully avoided mention of the future...
...Arthur Turnure, had announced that the magazine's "definite object is the establishment of a dignified, authentic journal of society, fashion, and the ceremonial side of life," Vogue covered Manhattan's glittering social life with rapt attention. Thus the big story of 1895 was the marriage between Consuelo Vanderbilt and the young Duke of Marlborough. For its readers, Vogue carefully described the Vanderbilt trousseau: "The markings consist of the name 'Consuelo' embroidered on the nightgowns, chemises and corset covers on the left side, while on the drawers it adorns the left knee." For the new rich...
...Vermont Consuelo Northrop Bailey, second woman to be speaker of a U.S. state legislature,* won the G.O.P. nomination and virtual certainty of becoming the nation's first lady lieutenant governor. Tireless Connie Bailey, 54, who first won office (state's attorney) in 1927, drove 23,000 miles to campaign, handily defeated two strong male opponents, former Governor Harold Arthur and Attorney General F. Elliott Barber...