Word: denim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue denim dress in the county jail the next day, she spoke with righteous indignation. She had been "busted" (jailed) last year for taking heroin. "But I kicked [got rid of the habit]. I have no eyes to weigh 94 lbs. again. You couldn't see me if I turned sideways." Now why, she demanded, was she put in jail merely for "smoking...
...clock one evening last week, a dignified, white-haired man, his lawyer at his side, walked into Los Angeles' towering county jail building and surrendered on his bond. At the booking desk he emptied his pockets, received an ill-fitting blue denim uniform to replace his elegant double-breasted grey flannel suit. Soon, reported a turnkey, No. 22487 was "sleeping like a baby" in the upper bunk of cell 10A2 on the twelfth floor. Hollywood Producer Walter (Stagecoach) Wanger, 57, a suave man with "no previous arrests," had begun what he called his "summer vacation...
Harvard men won't be at all surprised when their dates' formals are made of tulle or organdy net, but they'll have to get accustomed to seeing denim and quilted cotton evening dresses now. The widespread use of quilted fabrics initiated last fall, will continue throughout the summer season...
Dressed in rough, blue denim work clothes, the Benedictine nuns of St. Louis du Temple were busy one day last week plastering the walls of their new convent at Limon, near Paris. As they worked, a nun in full habit picked her way through the chaos of scaffolding, pipes and plaster, and the others turned to look at her with sharp interest. Even the Mère Abbesse showed special respect. The abbess pointed to the outline of a Gothic window above a freshly mortared chapel wall: "And there, Mère Geneviève, we shall need three large...
...famed old Pepperell Manufacturing Co. mailed out a $1.25 first-quarter dividend to its 5,600 stockholders last week, it joined the select group of U.S. companies which have paid a dividend every year for a century. Moreover, with all four of its textile weaving mills (sheets, blankets, denim, etc.) booked solid, and with a tidy $4,000,000 profit on fiscal 1950's sales of $66 million, Chairman William Amory, 81, could report that Pepperell's future looked as promising as its past...