Word: distaff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flamboyant Times-Herald, it would mean a return to the distaff rule that the newspaper had known for eleven whirling-dervish, moneymaking years under the late Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson. But there the resemblance ended: in temperament and talent, Bazy and her distant cousin were as different as sugar and spice...
...hundred pound of blonde Radcliffe Freshman got a watery heave-he at the hands of eight unsympathetic Leverett oarsmen Tuesday when she offered the Bunny boat her willing services as a distaff coxswain...
...distaff side of the Leverett serving line averages ten years younger and 100 smiles prettier than any other aggregation
Next? There was Elliott Roosevelt, of course, and his actress wife, Faye Emerson. Meyer claimed to have picked up over $1,000 worth of their hotel, bar, party and race-track checks. On the distaff side, the names read like theater marquees or the roll call at Hollywood's Central Casting. Actresses Lana Turner, Linda Darnell and Ava Gardner were said to be on the committee's list. A leggy, blonde ex-riveter named Judy Cook declared that she had been paid $100 to put on her swimming act in the Hughes pool for visiting dignitaries. Actress Myrna...
...refreshing to see the poise these models have," was the assertion of white-haired Joseph Champagne, Beacon Hill dancing instructor and a sort of unhurried Arthur Murray, as he sat down to become the third male in the distaff sea. A tardy fourth, orchestra leader Vaughn Monroe added a touch of glamour as he assumed his place with "Yeah, but they should put price tags on the dresses. They did at the one I judged at the Stork Club...