Word: hems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line shoots like a falling sputnik past the waist, tightens at the hips, and tapers slimly to the hem. "In a word, sexy," Mademoiselle reports. But if the new look is sexy, it's subtle...
Proposed costume for Actress Jayne Mansfield playing the Prince of Denmark [June 24]: "black tights, bare bodkin." Bodkin threw me for a loop, so I referred to my faithful dictionary, which states that a bodkin is "an instrument for drawing tape through a hem, a pointed instrument . . . a pin for fastening the hair." Even on Miss Mansfield, I can't imagine anything less interesting than a "bare bodkin...
...first bouts of fever, medics prescribe morphine; and by the time the malaria appears to be gone, so is Barney's moral resistance. He is an abject addict. But why? The script states explicitly the physiological basis of his addiction, but about the psychological causes it can only hem and haw: "The roar of the crowd ... is quite a narcotic . . . but morphine is a bad substitute...
...State for Spectacles withdrew his lubsidy bill and promised to submit a new, milder version. Florence's monkish Mayor Giorgio La Pira refused to sign orders laying off opera employees on the;rounds that it would require so much in severance pay that it was cheaper to keep ,hem employed. Said he: "Angels sing in perfect harmony. In paradise, nothing but music is heard. I must remind the government that in paradise the angelic chorus s not subject to audit...
...achieve an atmosphere which will be conducive to this type of development, Elder suggested that the individual departments, working in conjunction with the administration, might free students from "the countless trivial departmental requirements that hem them...