Word: garters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trumpeters, resplendent in gold-laced tabards, stepped out on a balcony of St. James's Palace, followed by sergeants-at-arms bearing maces. In the courtyard below stood guardsmen holding rifles and bandsmen with drums muffled in black. As the trumpeters blurted a brassy fanfare, Britain's Garter Principal King of Arms Sir George Bellew - flanked by the Earl Marshal, two more Kings of Arms, six Heralds and three heraldic Pursuivants, all dressed like himself in tabards and cockaded hats and bearing staffs of gold, silver and ebony - stepped forward and raised a huge parchment...
...COOP'S sensation of last year is available again this Christmas, connoissuers and bon vivants alike will be pleased to learn. The striking, tasteful Harvard Garter is again on sale, at the Coop only for $1.35. Made of black elastic, satin, and lace, with a red satin patch that says "Harvard" in gold letters, this unusual item is guaranteed to enhance the grace of even the shapliest...
...Daily Mirror's "hokum" crack was a reference to Robinson's training quarters at Windsor's Star and Garter Hotel, where thousands of curious Britons, acting for all the world like U.S. bobby-soxers, craned and crowded for a glimpse of Robinson and his flamboyant 14-man entourage or a peek at the gaudy fuchsia convertible* parked outside. Turpin, 23, son of a British Guianan and a white British mother, trained in the placid remoteness of Grwych Castle in North Wales...
Shelley plays Frenchie Fontaine, a New Orleans gambling queen who packs a dainty pistol just above the garter. She sets up shop in the frontier town of Bottleneck to track down the local varmints who killed her father. In the course of a plot with as many turns as her corset strings, Shelley has all the fun of acting like a trollop, then finally turns out to be a perfect lady, worthy of Sheriff Joel McCrea himself...
...hiding on the bottom of the tank (it took the girl 20 minutes to capture it). At Five Points, Atlanta's busiest intersection, Keasler and Photographer Ed Pierce, who concealed his camera, snapped the faces of male passers-by as they watched a pretty model adjust her garter-and ran the pictures in the Journal. In Atlanta's fancy cat show, Keasler entered an alley cat, made such a scene that a special class was created, and he won a blue ribbon for having the only entry...