Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fizz, Foppington is far more concerned about the location of a coat pocket than the loss of a wife.† British Actor Cyril Ritchard (Love for Love, Make Way for Lucia) blends a born sense of comedy with a brilliant sense of style. His Foppington is no mere lace-handkerchief dangler, but the eager performer of an idiotic role, with a need and a genius for catching the limelight. Ritchard understands that the key to Foppington and his kind is not an ambiguity of sex but an absorption with self...
...great surprise that in the week before the match, prancy Gussie Moran, seventh-ranking U.S. amateur last year, spent a good part of her time in press conferences where she was asked whether she would wear lace panties or a leopard-skin number. Meanwhile, her opponent, Pauline Betz Addie, put in a week of hard practice, polishing up the game that had made her (1942, '43, '44, '46) a four-time national champion...
Before a select audience of 250 rapt ladies and a dozen faintly bored gentlemen, some 13 bosomy A.E. Associates in flowing evening gowns gyrated gracefully about a stage in earnest imitation of atomic forces at work. An ample electron in black lace wound her way around two matrons labeled "proton" and "neutron" while an elderly ginger-haired Geiger counter clicked out their radioactive effect on a pretty girl named Agriculture. At a climactic moment, a Mrs. Monica Davial raced across the stage in spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese. Mrs. Davial, it was noted in the program...
...Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first cousin of Princess Elizabeth, took their stations as godparents while the Archbishop of York christened Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, who looked her 67-day-old best in a satin and lace gown handed down by her great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria...
...have short legs. Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer." Cole's new bathing suits, as form-fitting as ever, go in heavily for vertical patterns to help the wearer look slim. The brightest eye catcher on display was a lace & jersey suit sparkling with 24-karat gold. Price...