Word: garter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avon-Chalmar; M-S-M)isafallen woman (Susan Hayward) who pulls herself up from bawdyhouse to governor's mansion by her garter straps. One election year in Louisiana, she entertains a cotton-pickin', git-tar-strummin' candidate for Governor (Dean Martin), who so deeply appreciates her "campaign contribution" that he asks her to marry him. She does, and when he wins in November the scarlet woman suddenly becomes the first lady...
...Cottage. "You just wait. I'll sin till I blow up." But a few moments before, she was a garrulous, gossipy Mrs. Organ Morgan, and an almost lyric Rosic Probert ("Remember her./She is forgetting./The Earth which filled her mouth/Is vanishing from her"). And Miss Moses sings Polly Garter's song with all its appropriate plaintiveness. In other words, they both know how to read, and how to read Thomas...
...classic nouns of assemblage--"a gaggle of geese," "a pride of lions"--the English man of words Eric Partridge once added some modern variants--"a column of journalists," "a suavity of diplomats." In terms like these, one formula for a successful musical is a hum of songs and a garter of chorus girls. Winthrop House has combined Leonard Bernstein with Radcliffe, and On the Town results...
...kitchen shelves, since British housewives believe nothing makes a jar of preserved fruit so airtight as jamming a farthing under the spring clip on each top. Others are holding up girls' stockings, a farthing being just the right size to substitute for a missing thingumbob on a garter belt. Millions of others have been laid by as souvenirs. There may yet come a day when British moppets will not know the meaning of the traditional ditty when they sing...
...When Mrs. Rosenthal's husband died in 1958, she took over as chairman, moved from their 18-room Long Island mansion to a three-room apartment in Manhattan, where a chauffeur calls at 9 each morning to take her to Maidenform's headquarters in Manhattan's garter belt. She personally adds up the new orders each morning to "see if the salesmen are working or playing golf," travels around the U.S. to see how her bras are faring in stores. "Quality we give them," she says. "Delivery we give them. I add personality...