Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from sheet ropes over fire-belching windows, and leaped for safety nets. Some hit with such force that the nets were torn from firemen's hands. As a girl jumped from a seventh-floor window she gasped: "I hope I live! I hope I live!" Despite a broken hip...
...Beverly Hills, Alfred Letourner, onetime French cycling champ, got a $200 fine for taking a nick out of a lady friend's hip. He had not meant to cut the lady (he said). Upset because of her friendship with another, he had just taken a few distraught slashes at her bed, and she happened to be in it. Day after he was fined Letourner was arrested again, charged with creating a disturbance at Barney's Beanery, where his old friend worked. She had married the other fellow. That time, Letourner (said his lawyer) was just trying to patch...
Collegiate editors have been stealing such gags-and even worse ones-from each other since the 1870s, when the Lampoon and Yale Record were born. These college magazines reached a heyheyday in the hip-flasked, short-skirted '20s, when John Held Jr.'s flat-chested flappers were all the rage and Judge and the old Life were the thing to copy. The jokes had not changed much since, but the imitative style had. In the depression, many became introspective, proletarian, or both; others took to aping Esquire and got suppressed for it. This year most campus editors seemed...
...good indication of the change in store was the New York Times's fifth annual "Fashions of the Times" show in Manhattan last week. For four days, a corps of lanky, hip-waving manikins paraded their exclusive "creations" before audiences of buyers, merchandisers, fashionwriters and prospective customers...
Afternoon dresses (longer by an inch and a half) were beaded, tucked, draped, and trimmed for "hip interest" with peplums, bustles and fantail backs. Suits were cut away to swallowtails. Shoes were closed, heel & toe, in defiance of the American woman's recent preference for open shoes...