Word: drapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same car were political advisers: Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck; John Hollister of Cincinnati, ex-law partner of Senator Robert Taft; bumptious ex-Gagman Walter O'Keefe, drape-suited young Lawyer Oren Root Jr. Then Vincent Gengarelly, barber-valet-masseur; Willkie's press-relations man, quick-smiling, 30-year-old Lamoyne Jones, ex-crack police reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, who looks like a juvenile lead...
Three years ago, in one of its periodic waves of public purification, Manhattan ordered burlesque shows not only to drape their naked cuties, but to drape themselves in an even more euphemistic name. Complying reluctantly with this ukase, the louse-opera impresarios put a little more gauze on their strip-teasers, advertised their wares as "Frolics" and "Follies." Promptly business started to sag. Even when desperate divas began to strip to their pelts again, the box office was still in the doldrums. Last week the operators of Manhattan's three remaining burlesque houses got together with union representatives, prepared...
Lillian Russell (20th Century-Fox), Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's semi-annual rummaging in the attic of U. S. culture, nostalgically evokes the howling vulgarities of the gilded era. This time the hourglass figure of Singer Lillian Russell serves as a prop on which to drape a long (two hours) and lavish account of her vocal triumphs and marital monotonies. For reasons which the picture never clears up, Alice Faye is cast as Lillian Russell. Queues of top-hatted gentlemen, roomfuls of roses, $15,000 trinkets sent her anonymously by Diamond Jim Brady fail to dent her indomitable domesticity...
...farmers could be passed viva voce in the Senate the minute it is introduced, but the Senate would never consider doing it that way. The "orderly process" is to study a House-passed bill, such as this year's $714,000,000 farm measure, find places to drape on added gifts, then pass it, with every Senator given his chance to roar devotion to U. S. agriculture...