Word: corsetable
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...Corset: freshmen 47%, seniors 57%. faculty 51%, men 58%, women...
Lynne Jaffee (Dressmakers' Union) minces like a millionaire, twitters to a line of strikers: "It's not cricket to picket." The show's dance specialty is Doin' the Reactionary. Slim Ruth Rubinstein (Corset & Brassiere Union), as Italy's Public Enemy No. 1 (because she produces only one little Fascist at a time), laments...
Wandering aimlessly down Boylston Street in the heart of the throbbing Hub, our attention was drawn to a rather meretricious display in the window of a corset shop. Being a disciple of the Freudian school, and having no inhibitions whatsoever, we slyly sidled over to the window to have a look at the very shapely and attractive wax models displaying the latest in feminine scanties...
...glanced at the name on the window of the establishment and beheld the inscription: "IVY CORSET SHOPPE." Frankly, the name stumped us. Ivy is a beautiful plant, and corsets make women more beautiful. Was this the relation the Shoppe was trying to imply, we wondered? We fingered a two-day beard, feeling very masculine, slightly superior, but still very puzzled...
...devoted followers buried him in the churchyard. Later, his tomb was incorporated in the basement of a new church, making it a shrine near which today is a Memorial Museum containing such relics as his "mourner's bench" and his wife Sarah's reputed corset. Last week in the dining hall adjoining these holy spots, Negroes sang hymns, ate ice cream & cake at a "Grand Educational and Sesquicentennial Concert and Social." The African Methodist Episcopal Church was celebrating the 150th anniversary of its existence, which it dates from the time that Richard Allen left the white Methodist Church...