Word: flattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holes in the castings had been plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found the right scapegoat. Bouch died soon afterwards, a ruined, bitter, ostracized man; his widow took to drink and married a sea captain. Authors Prebble and Kendrick both flatter the modern reader with their implicit assumption that this is a more enlightened age-but there is room for doubt. When Lisbon's walls came tumbling down, 18th century man sought a theological explanation. When a gale destroyed the Tay Bridge. Victorian England found a mechanical cause. Yet each...
Immature U.S. males come to marriage demanding Monroe-built mammas who will pamper and flatter, raise children, keep house while holding down an outside job, make do with last year's girdle, and still stay stacked enough to rank with movie queens...
...month campaign in the U.S. to organize a 40-man team for next summer's work in Japan and to raise some $50,000 to pay for it. "During the occupation," he tells his audiences, "there was an abnormal Christianity boom. The Japanese are adaptable and wanted to flatter the Americans, so many pretended to become Christians. They would have their weddings in churches. But the real test was baptism. Few would do it because it was a cultural break with ancestors, and sometimes with inheritance...
...Paris last week, the very latest word in fashion was that Christian Dior had gone gothic, and brought out a brassière-girdle-corset to shift bosoms about to conform to the new, flatter look. Said a Dior artisan of the bustline: "The main idea is to bring the bosom-which used to center some 25 to 26 centimeters (9.8 to 10.2 inches) from the shoulder-up to 19 or 20 centimeters (7.4 to 8.2)." Although U.S. designers dutifully listened, some claimed that his new look was old stuff to them. Said the New York Dress Institute...
...adding a name and biography. (One West Coast multimillionaire offered to buy $2,000 worth of books if Who's Who would just include a long list of his wife's French forebears.) But Editor Sammons has an iron-clad rule that "you cannot buy, bribe or flatter your way into...