Word: corseted
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Actress West plays her heroine with an eloquent and minatory calm, which contrasts well with the chryselephantine magnificence of her appearance. There are oldtime tough songs, outmoded slang words ("moll," "dick," "corset"), and singing waiters, one of whom yodels, in the musty barroom, the same song with which he recently amused Manhattan cabaret patrons. Diamond Lil is an entertaining melodrama...
...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...
...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...