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...filibusterer or a filibustress. Near the end of her speech, Maurine noted that when she taught English back in Oregon she used to quote a little rhyme to her pupils as an example of anticlimax: O dear, what shall I do? I've lost my beau and my lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Head Winds | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...standing here in the Senate as I have stood here today would begin to show a 5 o'clock shadow. I feel that I have lost my lipstick too ..."At that point, Rhode Island's John Pastore, floor manager of the satellite bill, asked whether she would yield so he could speak. Suspecting some parliamentary maneuver, she refused, instead called for a quorum. During the quorum call, Pastore walked over to the lady and whispered: "I was just going to say you are charming and lovely even without lipstick." Next day the battle grew bitter. Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Head Winds | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...foretellings of Big Brotherism, the system has worked some good. Last Halloween, teen-aged pranksters invaded the University Apartments lobby. Their hands, clutching tubes of lipstick, were poised in mid-air with the four-letter words yet unwritten when a husky voice boomed out at them. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," it said. They fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: The Late Show | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

Other aids: no lipstick, flat shoes, a guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Folk-Girls | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

Could you please tell me how a reporter can overhear President Kennedy "whisper" to his wife. "You've got lipstick on your teeth." Now really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 25, 1962 | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

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