Word: fig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provide an extra 124 gal. of gas (he consumed all but eleven), and with a special horn. Horn's function: to blow every hour, prevent his falling asleep too long. Boling left a parachute behind to save 25 Ibs.. stocked up on canned pears, apricot nectar and Fig Newtons. Special baggage: the white Bible his wife Joyce, a Seventh-day Adventist, carried on their wedding day. Over the lonely Pacific, Boling. son of a Baptist minister, put the plane on automatic pilot, thumbed his favorite Proverbs, e.g., "The eyes of the Lord are in every place...
Figuratively Speaking. In Hollywood, the total wardrobe costs of the movie Adam and Eve, filmed in Mexico and starring Christiane Martel (Miss France and Miss Universe of 1953) came to $2.63 for fig leaves...
...nearly an hour last week Pope Pius XII discoursed on the subject of clothes to 70 delegates of Rome's first International Congress of High Fashion. His gist: Adam's and Eve's fig leaves set a sound fashion for fallen man. In the speech, the Pope displayed remarkable literary flair. On one hand, he said, clothes are a kind of language. "They tell us who is happy and who in mourning, who is rich, who is poor. They allow us to distinguish between the sacred and the profane." At the same time, clothes also have...
...Newton. In Fresno, Calif., the Dried Fig Advisory Board ordered another 15,000 copies of its promotional pamphlet on learning that the public had snapped up the first 20,000 of The Love Life of a Fig...
After reading of Dior's hysterical high fashions in your March 4 issue, one cannot but think there is something calm and sane about a fig leaf...