Word: cuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beverly Hills, Teitelbaum furriers offered mink bras and panties in 30 different mutations. Price: $2,500 a set. Also in Beverly Hills, Jewells by Tobias put on sale gold cuff links, in the shape of "his" and "her" shorts (viewed from the rear...
...message from Moscow caught the West by surprise, but once the haze of off-the-cuff interpretations cleared away, the move seemed logical, the motives obvious. On Nov. 3, the Kremlin had issued a heavy-handed note harshly spurning a U.S.-British-French 'proposal for a Big Four foreign-ministers' meeting in Lugano, Switzerland. That note, apparently drafted by underlings in Foreign Minister Molotov's absence, was patently a blunder. Its truculence "shocked the world," as the U.S. State Department put it; any neutralist could plainly see that the Russians did not want to reach agreement with...
...fizzy water," she is usually hard as nails, nagging her daughter Molly with contempt and loathing people in general. Her father, it seems, didn't love her. When she at last decides that the needs Molly and reveals herself as no pillar of strength, Molly gives her a healthy cuff and sets off for St. Louis...
...Famed today mostly for Undergraduate Thomas Brown's off-the-cuff insult: I do not love thee, Doctor Fell The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone 1 know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell...
Furriers also blame the weatherman for falling sales, and have taken action to combat the slump. Instead of full-length coats, they now emphasize smaller pieces, such as stoles, short jackets and neckpieces, which can be worn on warm days. They have also put fur to work in earrings, cuff links, sweaters and even bow ties. Said Executive Secretary Irving Genfan of the New York Master Furriers Guild: "We're putting fur on everything except...