Word: garter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main thrill for bobby-soxers and stylish stouts is rosy Van Johnson, a sort of air-conditioned Charles Ray, whose boyish charm is honest and home-cooked enough to keep the men in the audience reasonably fair-minded while the women wallow. The main thrill for the pants-&-Paris-garter trade is Esther Williams ; she has the kind of body-displayed in a protean series of bathing suits-which you may dream of but aren't inclined to talk about at the breakfast table, and a nice, easy, assured personality to match. For music lovers, insensitive to such carnality...
...Cowles noted that the English sparrow apparently mates only during the cool early morning hours when its body temperature drops below normal. The garter snake rarely breeds in summer...
...newshens. According to the report, there is a secret list which Capitol Hill's 135 female reporters are supposed to keep of U.S. Senators and Representatives "to stay on the other side of the desk from." Appended to prominent names on the list were such descriptive names as "Garter Snapper"; "Revolving Door Romeo" (he "gets into the same compartment of a revolving door [and] . . . pinches"); "Elevator Lothario"; "Gooser Gander"; and "Desk Athlete" ("He jumps. See him only with your gang...
Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands was admitted by King George VI into Britain's most ancient (founded in 1349), most exclusive (41 living members) Order of the Garter, thus became the first foreign Queen and the third living woman (only others are Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary) entitled to wear on her left arm the society's diamond-studded garter...
...went on plugging the sentimental melody which she had helped to make No. 1 on the Hit Parade: I'll Be Seeing You (in "all the old familiar places" of Paris, the lyrics imply). Milliner Lilli Dache (whose newest creation is a hat composed of a single pink garter) and Dressmaker Hattie Carnegie announced they would take the first possible boat to Paris. In San Francisco, Department Storekeeper Paul Verdier closed his doors and broke out champagne for his 600 employes. In Hollywood, husky-voiced Tallulah Bankhead, who had vowed not to take a drink until complete Allied victory...