Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Candidate Kefauver was earnestly pumping hands from Massachusetts to Florida last week, the candidate's wife was competently tending the family's political fences back in Washington. Red-haired Nancy Kefauver, slim and trim in a bronze, lowcut, strapless gown, rose before 400 guests at a Women's National Press Club dinner. Her voice trembled a bit as she began her first political speech, and she admitted that she felt like "Alice among the medicine bottles."* But she soon hit just the right note...
...seven years she has gained weight and now has a comfortable and matronly air. Frequently, these days, she allows herself the luxury of red fingernail polish. But Mrs. Roosevelt is still not a woman who cares for frippery-she bought only one dress, an evening gown, this winter in Paris, and then only because she forgot to bring one from New York. She uses no lipstick and no powder, and keeps nothing on her dressing table but a big, black, old-fashioned comb, a hairbrush and a faded picture of F.D.R. as a young...
Laid low by grippe, Strong Man Fulgencio Batista last week wrapped himself in blue pajamas and a blue silk dressing gown and stuck close to the huge master bedroom at his Camp Columbia headquarters outside Havana. But his relaxed manner showed as clearly as his personal flag,* flying from every Cuban fort and armory, that he was boss of the island...
...Circus Saints and Sinners monthly luncheon gag-fest in Manhattan, Vice President Alben Berkley cheerfully put on a cap & gown and gracefully accepted a few new "honorary" degrees, including a P.H.D. (for Poor Honest Democrat), a B.S. (for Bourbon & Soda), a D.D.T. (for Doing the Darndest for Truman...
...mine coal to carry bricks on a Russian construction project. Designer Gehringer's clothes were as good-looking as his model. Samples: a trim, black & white silk print afternoon dress with a detachable overskirt that can be removed and worn as a shoulder cape; a white organza evening gown with a taffeta underskirt, hand-embroidered and studded with rhinestones (see cut). Although the clothes were brought in duty-free and for exhibit purposes only, it looked as if the Germans would have little trouble selling their designs...