Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour Europe with a flutist and a cellist. After a stint in the French army in World War I (wounded in action). Salzedo returned to the U.S. and got to work making the harp something better than one of those "extra" instruments rarely heard outside full-dress philharmonic orchestras...
...Oriental Church, which would be most involved in any reconciliation talks, turned the damper on by describing the meeting at Rhodes as little different from other contacts in past years between Roman Catholic and non-Roman Catholic scholars. He denied that the Vatican was planning a full-dress conference with Orthodox leaders in the next year or two. But he hastened to add: "Certainly, if such a conference should have favorable prospects, no one could object...
With wide-eyed envy, the first episode of Sweet Success reported the rise of Don Loper, a onetime ballet dancer, who gives up the stage for dress designing. To Producer Douglas, the critics' sneers seemed almost unAmerican. "Something's wrong in this country right now," says he. "With the beatniks and all, it seems fashionable to be a failure. In Sweet Success I'm going to show people who are successful because they worked hard, and people who live well because they enjoy...
...Sensing an intimate glimpse into luxury-liner indiscretion, the British press tried to give an answer, leaped wildly on the story. Where facts failed, imagination soared. Headlined the Daily Express: WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE. PASSENGERS SAW THE LADY'S DRESS GO ZZZ ... ZIP! The woman whose fastener broke on a recent transatlantic run-and whose dress nearly slipped off-was attractive Mrs. Susan Silverstone, thirtyish, of Manhattan, who was promptly dubbed "Black-Eyed Susan." Passengers confirmed the incident, but it was not until farther down in the story that readers discovered where Captain Armstrong...
...table. Mrs. Kucker gave the first real rundown on the charges. "I have a letter from Captain Armstrong," said she, "saying that he has been accused of chasing young girls around the ship and sitting in the main lounge with Mrs. Silverstone on his knee, zipping and unzipping her dress." Added Mrs. Kucker: "Nothing like that even loosely transpired...