Word: hourglasses
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...Hollywood, Lana Turner, who did her bit to make the public sweater-conscious, poured her well-known curves into a different mold, gave photographers a new waistline pose. Trussed almost breathless in a Gay Nineties corset, Lana said: "Girls with hourglass figures set off by those tiny waists had the right idea if beau-catching was their idea...
...words of John Winant, that those who suffered and died did so for the common good of the free people of the earth who should come after them. There were moments in that period when there was no other resource but that faith, when the sands in the hourglass seemed to have run out and all would soon be over. Had there been disillusionment then, it would have been fatal...
...mustache cup. The summer's furore over longer hemlines was nothing but a skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried that what was black had become white, that there was no figure but the hourglass figure and that salvation lay in what Harper's called the new "Mold of Fashion...
...picture's main concession to period realism: Miss Oberon's remarkable hourglass figure, apparently devised by an efficient studio make-up department to set off her eye-popping 1900 wardrobe. Merle plays an unprincipled baggage who succeeds in marrying Archeologist George Brent over the protests of Brent's worldly friend and physician, Dr. Paul Lukas. After a few days in turn-of-the-century Egypt, surrounded by her husband's tiresome scientific friends, Merle gets a discontented look...
...Schlumbohm's pride & joy is Chemex, a glass coffeemaker that looks like an angular hourglass. Dr. Schlumbohm, who drinks six cups of coffee a day, invented it because he was sick of bad coffee. Said he: "With this, even a moron can make good coffee...