Word: corsetable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...receptions was fogged in a cloud of superlatives and oratory. Mediocre speeches, inane songs* and wretched poetry shadowed him. But the fact remains that the newspapers have made an entire country as small and closely knit as a village. Usually it is the village bad boys and girls-erring corset salesmen, twisted sex victims, brawling cinema actors and actresses-who make the rest of the villagers sit up, rub eyes. But whether it is a good show or a bad show or a peep show, the newspapers have certainly brought the art of ballyhoo to new heights of volume...
...Long Island City, N. Y., across the square from a courthouse where an adultress and a corset salesman were on trial for murder, a small man appeared at dawn trundling a wheelbarrow full of lumber. He selected a site, began sawing, hammering, whistling...
...most famed U. S. female impersonator, Actor Julian Eltinge, whose testimonials the best corset-makers craved, is at present in retirement, in Florida...
...carnival week again in Manhattan. This time a muscular corset-salesman had murdered a middle-aged art editor, assisted by the editor's adulterous wife...
...murderers had confessed separately and were reviling each other from their prison cells. Judd Gray, the corset-salesman, was pleading insanity and saying he had been led astray, debauched. Ruth Snyder, the wife, was professing horror and penitence, calling her paramour a low "jackal." Also there was even a child, Lorraine Snyder, aged 9, to heighten the emotionalism of the trial. Lorraine still believed her father and mother were temporarily away "on a trip...