Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least one film actress, Binnie Barnes, is credited with a larger shoe than Greta Garbo's ? 7½AA. A cursory survey of other foot sizes produces the following: Claire Dodd 7AAA, Helen Vinson 7AA, Joan Blondell 6C, Marion Davies 6B, Carole Lombard 5½A, Norma Shearer 5½A, Jean Harlow...
...close to the source of supply. One afternoon last week Citizen Parker in overalls and his barefoot family settled down in the gallery of the House of Representatives. In that restful spot, Mrs. Parker unbuttoned her dress, presented her ample breast to her eight-month-old daughter, Hilda Jean...
...touch of nature made the whole House embarrassed. Members whispered nervously to one another. Did the gentleman from Kansas see what the gentleman from Maine saw up there in the gallery? Should someone make a point of order? Hilda Jean Parker had been nursing about five minutes when House Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnott tapped Evert Parker ominously on the shoulder. Fishing in the pocket of his blue jeans, Father Parker produced not one but two white paste-boards?admission cards from two distinguished Senators, Huey Long of Louisiana and Carter Glass of Virginia...
...there as a biomechanical assistant to Nobel Prizeman Alexis Carrel. Dr. Carrel was trying to keep human organs alive for long periods so that physiologists could study their reactions piecemeal. For more than 100 years physiologists had tried to do so, with no real success, ever since Frenchman Julien-Jean-Cesar Legallois (1770-1814) predicted: "If one could substitute for the heart a kind of injection ... of arterial blood, either natural or artificially made . . . one would succeed easily in maintaining alive indefinitely any part of the body." But like many an experimenter before him, Dr. Carrel found that "there...
...publication of "Robert Francis' " The Wolf at the Door (original title: La Grange aux Trois Belles). As different as could be from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night) and Andre Malraux (Man's Fate), "Robert Francis" (real name: Jean Godmé) follows his romantic bypath in the footsteps of Alain Fournier, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen. Critics will note a long gap between Author Francis and the men he trails, but readers who are sick & tired of painful realism may well find surcease in The Wolf...