Word: leastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town buyers headed home after days of hectic shopping at Manhattan's annual Undergarment Market Week, their order books reflected little interest in the flat look. In scores of Manhattan showrooms, they had gravely inspected parades of full-breasted models wearing bras to make the mostest of the leastest, rather than vice versa. Said one buyer: "It may be chic in New York to be flat-chested, but the rest of American women still have bosoms and aren't really interested in looking like they...
...late Philanthropist Vincent Astor is likely to go down in U.S. tax annals as the multimillionaire with the leastest -for the revenuers. Astor, who died last year at 67, left an estate appraised last week by New York State tax commissioners at an impressive $127,377,021.34. Out of this mountainous greenery came a nadir of sorts in mid-20th century U.S. estate taxes: $253,869.44-less than 0.2% of the amount that Astor could not take with him. How did Testator Astor do it? It seemed, under New York State and federal inheritance statutes, kind of easy: he left...
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