Word: garter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadway, meanwhile, is hastily thumbing over some of Avery Hopwood's other dead tropical fruit-Fair and Warmer, The Gold Diggers, Getting Gertie's Garter, The Demi-Virgin...
Some readers may feel that the inclusion of capitalism in this series is much like saying that garter snakes and rattlesnakes are both snakes...
...getting it-the more so because she is sure that a year ago, before the boys filled up the Army camps, she could have bought it for the feed bill. So she has decided to start her own magazine, called after her new show, Star & Garter. ("I wouldn't put a nickel in a show, not 5?, but I'd take money from my annuities for a magazine...
Emperor Hirohito will be expelled by Britain as Knight of the Garter, lose his honorary field marshalship in the British Army...
When H. L. Mencken called Stripteaser Gypsy Rose Lee an ecdysiast* ten years ago, Gypsy (whose finale at the time consisted in dropping her garter belt in the tuba) called Mencken an intellectual snob, accused him bitterly of reading books. Now Gypsy has committed the final act of intellectual snobbery, written a book herself. It is a lurid, witty and highly competent detective story...