Word: lipstick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watching her husband over the years, Selby's wife Wilma found out about his other life. As he told it afterwards, she was forever suspecting him, inspected him nightly for telltale lipstick, once threatened to kill him. Instead, early last year, methodical Accountant Joseph Selby set out to hire somebody to kill Wilma...
British men have long insisted that what God and good breeding stock bestow, women had best leave alone.* At long last, British women discovered that they knew better, suddenly recognized what a difference a little lipstick can make. To meet the booming demand for cosmetics, U.S. companies such as Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden and Revlon have moved in alongside such traditional powder-and-scent houses as Atkinson, Goya and Yardley to take aim on a $300 million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped...
...Boyd, a paunchy 41, his wife Betty, and their children, Susan, 15, Sharon, 12, and Bruce, 8, packed into the wilds of Lower Lipstick Lake, 250 miles north of San Francisco and less than four miles from the ranch house of Boyd's friend J. D. Proctor. With them they carried salt, an ax, five knives, 50 ft. of nylon rope, toothbrushes, a ball of twine and-for emergencies-a sealed rifle, a flashlight and a first...
...however, is not riotous and gay; there are odd little corners where things are pretty chilly-- little interludes which one comes upon in surprise, where there is not even a pretense to comedy. The gynecologist's daughter, a girl of fifteen, cannot understand why a longtime friend suddenly prefers lipstick and dresses to swimming and sweatshirts. Not an uncommon problem, one supposes,--yet the expression of fear on the girl's face as she tries to fit together her friend's attitude with her parent's impending divorce indicates that she is seeing it in a peculiarly painful way. "Love...
...took heed, and Auntie began to use lipstick and to take cha cha lessons...