Word: hemming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saucer" as bulky as six 6-B29s. A prospector in the Cascade Mountains saw six discs that made the needle of his compass gyrate wildly. Little children saw little discs. Two kids in Hamel, Minn, reported that a dull grey disc two feet across had come right down between .hem, hit the ground, spun around, bounced up again making whistling noises, and sped off over the trees...
Pretty Vivien Leigh tripped daintily up the narrow, old-fashioned stairs in her London home, caught her foot in the hem of the fur coat she was carrying, tumbled down again. A sprained back forced her to step out of her three current Old Vic roles for two weeks. Said Vivien: "It was a beautiful fall." Said husband Sir Laurence Olivier: "My God, I thought she had broken her neck...
...Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock. A girl in flowing robes enters, dances around him, and wakes him by provocatively brushing the hem of her gown over his face. In the old version, a flirtation then began. In the Red version, she says sweetly: "How can you sleep while foreign imperialists are sucking the blood of your people?" The shepherd rises, flexes his muscles, recognizes his duty, and exits with the girl into...
...have the New Look; you have let down your hem; she has had that dress since...
...style of skirt was described as dangerous, unflattering, expensive, and an annoyance to wear. Miss Manuellian caught her heel in the hem of one and all but fell down a flight of stairs...