Word: corsetable
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...ladies lived in a world of sweetness and leisure. On the contrary, their nerves were strained by 52 weeks of routs, jours, fashionable events of all sorts and by problems of a private nature. Their moods, which hinged on the more or less tolerable torment of the tightly laced corset . . . were feverish, stormy, or even worse...
...Moatsie stayed in Moscow, but for two weeks "cried [herself] to sleep every night and couldn't keep any food down." Moatsie kept going. Russian women enviously fingered her American corset. "A naughty gleam" came to the eye of a fellow correspondent when Moatsie was shown wounded Russian soldiers lying naked in healing mineral baths, and she cracked: "I am prepared to testify that the Germans aren't hitting below the belt...
Lucky indeed is the U.S. small businessman who neatly straddled war problems and priorities with the simple formula of 50% peace business, 50% war business. Such a man is Long Island Girdlemaker Max Kops, whose Nemo Corset Co. last week was making WAAC girdles, Army flare parachutes and Medical Corps supplies on one hand, doing a flourishing peacetime business on the other...
...that was no way either to live or die. Every night she "brushed her hair for 15 minutes [and] went through all her ordinary ablutions," making, apologetically, one concession: in order not to delay the others if the time should come for haste, she put on her 80-hook corset over her nightgown. Rulka undressed the children "mostly for psychological reasons...
...democratic world waited for General Maurice Gamelin to start. Few detected any symbolic menace in the frivolities of Paris, continuing despite blackout and mobilization. The city's latest dither was occasioned by an attempt by the couturier Mainbocher* to bring back the Victorian wasp-waisted corset, as ill-adapted to modern habits as was the French High Command to the blitz technique that Berlin was perfecting over the French horizon...