Word: flossier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occupancy rate. Those who stay outside town struggle for a choice highway intersection, or even a slight rise of ground so that motorists can see them from afar. Wherever a motelman does well, he can soon expect a rival to try to set up an even flossier motel next door...
...five brand-new vice presidents installed in identical offices. Everything was peaceful until one used his expense account to replace his single-pen set with a two-pen set. Within four days all five worked their way up to three-pen sets. Then they went on to bigger and flossier names on their doors, and other changes, until the president called a halt and broke everyone back to one-pen sets. A big Chicago oil company caused a major crisis a few years ago when it bought a new type of posture chair to test...
Until something flossier came along, everyone agreed that the marriage of "Toodie" to David was Washington's biggest wedding of the year. Inside Connecticut Avenue's old greystone National Presbyterian Church, 700 invited guests witnessed the marriage of Mrs. Romaine Dahlgren Pierce Simpson (Manhattan divorcee) to Britain's David Michael Mountbatten, the Marquess of Milford Haven, a second cousin of King George VI. Traffic was held up for blocks around, and the crowd outside treated the newlyweds like movie stars when they left the church. Among the prominent guests: ex-King...