Word: corsetable
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...wish you would take up seriously and strongly the matter of the utility [Government-designed] corset. There should be no false modesty about this very essential article...
...After the birth of my second child the sight of my figure enclosed in a utility corset nearly paralyzed me. True, it caused a certain amusement to my family, but I didn't feel funny, only ill and unhappy...
...little dance groups for six years without getting anywhere. He started plotting Fancy Free last June, got the New York Philharmonic's 25-year-old assistant conductor Leonard Bernstein to do the music. Now Hollywood and Broadway will not let Robbins alone. Says he, the son of a corset manufacturer: "Who am I? Just a guy from Weehawken, and all of a sudden-boom...
...London working woman had no complaint: "I still got the corset I bought for the Coronation but I only wear it Sundays. This utility stuff don't bother me, dearie...
...dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant one-thanks to his vibrant averageness, Hope is any healthy, cocky, capering American. He is the guy who livens up the summer hotel, makes things hum at the corset salesmen's convention, keeps a coachful of passengers laughing for an hour when a train is stalled. With his ski-slide nose and matching chin, he looks a little funny but he also looks normal, even personable, seems part of the landscape rather than the limelight...