Word: hooping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 200 large-sized hoops, closely followed by some 200 girls in caps and gowns and Bermuda shorts, were seen rolling across the Wellesley campus at about 7:30 a.m. today. The occasion was the annual senior Hoop Race, in which the winner is traditionally the first member of her class to get married, and several of the losers--notably, disguised Harvard students--are traditionally thrown into the lake for their pains...
...honey-blonde hair and emerald eyes of Marilyn Smuin, 19, a sophomore at Pasadena City College, plus her wellrounded personality (bust and hips 35 in., waist 25 in.), won her the throne as Queen of the Roses (66th annual tournament), and all the New Year's Day hoop-te-do attending the big event, the Rose Bowl football game...
Enter the villain: the rich boy's big brother (Humphrey Bogart). who wants junior to merge with a sugar king's daughter so that he, Bogart, can make her father jump through the wedding hoop in a business deal. Audrey, however, is flanking his maneuver. After a hasty inspection of her flank, Bogart determines to turn it, and on that line the rest of the plot is fought...
...first, stud and hoop earrings were the fashion; now it is pendants. Manufacturers are taking no chances of missing the next turn of fashion, but they are not worried that earrings will ever go out of style. Reason: 30% of Britain's earring wearers now have pierced ears, v. only 5% two years ago. At that time, Cyril Wilkinson, an ear piercer, appeared on BBC's most popular television program, What's My Line? He told of piercing the ears of the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester. Wilkinson is now piercing...
...setting the teeth to grinding . . . The use of 'bobble' for error has a high rasping content, while 'Senior Circuit' for American-or is it National?-League has a suggestion of pomposity, like an overstuffed clubman in an overstuffed chair." Other Trib selections: "hits the hoop" (for shooting baskets), "squared circle" (boxing ring), "spouted claret" (bleeding), "comeback trail...