Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while it looked as though the Hollywood girls would have to go it on their own. But last week, by a last-minute compromise, the grave jurisdictional issue was settled. Henceforth, Motion Picture Costumers Local 705 (A.F. of L.) would install only fabric "falsies" for such flat-chested working personnel as Hedy La-Marr, Paulette Goddard, Katherine Hepburn and Betty Button. Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706 (A.F. of L.) would install the rubber ones. Movieland bosoms rose with relief...
...medical records were not on hand, that much of his personnel was incompetent. He shut Stelle up with a curt report outlining shortcomings of which even Stelle was not aware. He doggedly applied himself to his business, building an organization which he hopes can do the job. In his flat Missouri twang, he said briefly: "I'm not worried...
...Yale, a flat rate of $158 a term is charged to all students, reliable, authority states, with allowances made for those on scholarships or needing special...
...machine was sadly rickety. Ike Eisenhower had already found that not a single division in the U.S. was fully trained and equipped. Even the staff organization, which was ready in 1940 to guide the growth of the war-born Army, had come loose at the seams. Eisenhower's flat prediction: "It would take another year to establish the framework of an organization with an efficiency that would compare with what...
Stylistically her book is as flat and wit less as a harmonica rendition of the Liebestod, but it does furnish a few peeks -between boudoir blackouts - at some of the men who make art a mystery...