Word: corseted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Adoption of girdles and brassieres as part of the women's army wardrobe will add to the prestige of the corset and brasiere industry, not only because this development would call for large orders, which are secondary, but because acceptnce of girdles and brassieres as part of the standard wardrobe . . . would establish, without reservations, foundation garments as essential to every woman, who will be more attractive for the duration. . . . Much credit is due to the Foundation Garment Institute of America, which worked with the quartermaster department in preparing the specifications...
...Betty Kelley as the emotional wife falls short of the generally high standard of the production. Billed as having previous experience on the Lone Ranger program and as a professional model, she may be the originator of "Hiyooooo Silver" and certainly was a "before" model for "before and after" corset advertisements...
...would be a victory. It would be particularly pleasing to the Coastal Command of the R.A.F., for previously all the spectacular British torpedo-bombing had been done by the Fleet Air Arm with Fairey Sword-fishes-rickety biplanes trussed up with as many outside stays as grandma's corset. (These "string bags" nicked the French battleship Strasbourg as she fled from the Battle of Oran, had crippled three heavy units of the Italian Fleet at Taranto, slowed the Vittorio Veneto in the Battle of Matapan, had crippled the Bismarck.) But this operation was being carried out by brand...