Word: derry
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...annual spring rite-the pilgrimage to the boulevards of Paris to examine the treasure-trove -of Paris' haute couture. For hundreds of years moralists have thundered and savants deplored the "private luxury" of fashion, but its tides have inexorably rolled on, exposing then obscuring bosoms, enhancing then suppressing derrièeres. This week the iron curtain of secrecy lifts, and U.S. women will see for the first time Fashion Dictator Christian Dior's newest enticements to planned obsolescence. See FOREIGN NEWS, Dictator by Demand...
...York Times' annual "Fashions of the Times," sportive designers presented living caricatures of the three basic silhouettes of the "New Look" (see cut): the melon, the pyramid, and the "derrière de Paris...
...Stage Door Canteen -or Cabaret des Troupes Alliées-had opened and was going full blast. Inside a day or two, in fact, it was frantically yelling for more hostesses, and the orchestra, plagued by boys who wanted to dance every second, was already dying on its derri...