Word: drapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctorate of science. Head of this low-cost educational project-an extension of both Los Angeles University's College of Psychiatry and Golden State University of Los Angeles-was curly-haired, thoughtful-looking, 24-year-old, self-styled "Vice Dean" George William Manus. His sideburns and the drape of his chalk-stripe suit were sharp. So were his departments: practical and applied psychology, chemical psychotherapy, hypnotic childbirth, advanced esoterics and metaphysics, and reflex therapy (dandy for baldness). Students of "prenatal suggestion" were advised: "When a couple decides to have children, they should go to a mountain resort where they...
...with them, at no matter what the cost to the war effort. The reason "Cap" Krug got no deferment was that he refused to permit it. Last week his Clinton, Tenn. draft board put him in 1-A and Krug, ex-University of Wisconsin footballer, was expecting to drape his 6 ft. 3 in., 235-lb. frame in a uniform...
...sticks his thumb in your mouth." But when Seagrave got a puzzling jaw case, the dentist stepped forward. "I let him go to it with a sigh of relief. By George, that fellow certainly knew his job! By the time he had finished I had something I could really drape that face over." Captain Grindlay from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic appeared. At first he seemed disgruntled to be put under a missionary doctor with native nurses. But he proved an excellent, tireless surgeon and gradually lost his standoffishness...
Zoot suitists deprived of drape shapes, reet pleats and stuff cuffs by WPB edict have a new decorative theme with which to express themselves in San Francisco and Oakland. War-working jalopy jerks find love stripes, painted diagonally across the doors of their hot irons,† the quickest way to let hep twists know what kind of wolf is giving them a gander. One stripe indicates single male on the scout. Two stripes-going steady but still stuff seeking. Three stripes-practically engaged, looking for no pickups. Four stripes-in the saddle, all soaped up, or married...
Five years ago Holiday Inn was a musical note in Songsmith Berlin's melodious mind. He wanted to drape a Broadway show around a series of songs for U.S. national holidays. Holiday Inn provided him with the right framework. According to its episodic plot, Singer Crosby turns his rural retreat into a roadhouse on every holiday in order to make country life pay, and to give himself and Fred Astaire a chance to sing and dance...