Word: dress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career when he had to defend the unpopular U.S. proposal for a "two-sided" (no neutrals) Korean peace conference instead of the "roundtable" (neutrals present) conference urged by Britain, backed by the Soviet bloc. A round-table conference, said Lodge, would resemble an old-fashioned Mother Hubbard dress, "covering everything and touching nothing." At the Political Committee showdown on the British resolution, Lodge lost 21 to 27, but the voting made clear that the British could not scrape up the two-thirds majority needed in the General Assembly, and the round-table plan got no farther. Once Lodge won that...
...moving with the times," declared the sedate British Broadcasting Corp. as last week it relaxed the rule that TV announcers must dress in dinner jackets on nighttime shows. The new, unstuffed-shirt policy brought cries of alarm from John Taylor, editor of Tailor and Cutter, bible of the British needle trades. A BBC man in a business suit is a desecration, complained Taylor. "The BBC should continue to set an example by doing the right thing visually." But Announcer Michael Aspel put the matter in a different light. "There used to be a communal dinner jacket which we just passed...
Schneider's Silver Cornet Band Concert, steps of Widener in the evening; dress rehearsal of Summer School Chorus in Sanders...
...blossom crisping in the sun, which the kiss found under the heavy gold anklets that polished the skin, and behind her knees . . ." Most important of all, for almost 20 hours a day, seven days a week, he is busy catering to an oddball group of well-heeled vagrants -perverted dress designers, roundheeled models, superannuated opera stars, blue-nosed diplomats, alcoholic newlyweds and assorted upper-class deadbeats...
...Brigitte. In a hilariously overplayed bit of French farce, Brigitte is found by her father hiding in Vidal's bed, and delightedly accepts his stern order that they marry. Order carried out, her cool cat still yowls on neighboring fences. For revenge, Brigitte leaps out of her dress at a visiting prince (Charles Boyer) and wriggles her way into an invitation to fly down to Nice for the afternoon. A few sinless hours later, of course, she is back nibbling again at a repentant hubby...