Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Victoria came onstage in Carnegie Hall, plump but pretty in a black gown and pearls, she got welcoming applause befitting an established favorite. It was a situation almost overripe for a letdown, but Soprano de los Angeles lived up to her notices...
...Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first cousin of Princess Elizabeth, took their stations as godparents while the Archbishop of York christened Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, who looked her 67-day-old best in a satin and lace gown handed down by her great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria...
...angry protest to RCA President Frank Folsom about a skit by TV Comics Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on the Colgate Comedy Hour (NBC-TV). The skit, showing a theater owner literally dragging patrons off the sidewalks and a cashier baiting passers-by in a low-cut evening gown, had "done serious damage to the industry." The moviemen asked RCA to "take steps immediately to see that this scene is not repeated on other stations." Martin & Lewis quickly apologized...
...with great surprise that I found your Aug. 28 story accompanied by the most vulgar picture I have ever seen in TIME . . . Let's keep the "television gown" in its proper place...
...named in French and Annamite peddle silks and souvenirs, white-topped Vietnamese police amble along, Foreign Legionnaires crowd sidewalk cafes, civilians in shorts sip cafe au lait in front of the fashionable bar of La Pagode. Women, slim and petite, add color with their cai-at (a vivid silk gown split at the hips, worn over silk pajamas...