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...corset lacing. Front lacing. Back lacing. Lacing that will, when you want, nip in your waist two or three inches. . . . To allow your hips to round out . . . many a new corset aims to release, rather than to flatten, hips -employing soft fabric gores and gussets on the sides to lighten the hip control. . . . The better to accentuate the bust . . . some corsets mount from two to six inches above the waist. . . . Already, of course, you're used to the idea of the camisoles, petticoats, ruffled panties, batiste underwear with lace or eyelet embroidery that aided and abetted Edwardian silhouettes. . Soon...
...last week's directors' meeting President McCarter declared: "I feel that the time has come when I should lighten up a little." Obedient as ever, the directors created the new post of chairman of the board for Thomas McCarter, upped Vice President Edmund Waring Wakelee, a silver-haired bachelor of 69, to the presidency. This took some routine executive work from founder McCarter's tiring shoulders, but he made it clear that he remained the boss...
Although the native States are legally wet, in the predominantly Moslem Northwest Frontier Province there is all but total prohibition. The Mohammedan religion bars alcohol, and its followers who want to lighten their immediate burdens take narcotics. In none of these places, however, are Europeans prevented from making, selling or buying liquor for their own consumption. For all Mr. Patel cares, the British can drink themselves to death with their chotapegs (half portions of Scotch whisky...
Trouble-shooter Davis could do nothing to stop the sickening fall of rubber from its 1925 high of $1.25 a pound to 2⅛? a pound in 1932, but he could do a little to lighten the effect of huge inventory losses on his company. He did it by slashing his inventory and accounts receivable (i. e., by selling part of his business) and the proceeds he applied to reducing the funded debt, thereby saving interest charges. While the deficit piled up and stockholders gave up, he wiped out $40,000,000 of that debt in three years. Meanwhile...
Coach Clark Shagginessy--"There is no remedy that I can suggest, save that we lighten our athletic schedule. If I were to turn out the strongest team possible, I'd take about the twelve best players and work with them and let the rest of them go. But when I came here, I was told that it was my job take every student who desired to came out for football and give him all the training possible. And I've tried to do that. After all, every student who plays his tuition is entitled to the same tutelage as every...