Word: lipstick
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...everything she could to keep them. She smeared on the lipstick with a will, and soon discovered mascara. "The neighbors called me cheap," she says, "but I knew I really wasn't." Her stutter began to disappear. She wrote verse. She skipped the last half of the eighth grade. "I looked back on the whole mess around that time," Marilyn recalls. "And something came up inside me and I said to myself. 'Somebody's got to come out of this whole...
Something had plainly changed in London since Georgy Malenkov's enthusiastic welcome only three weeks before. The pinpricks (or possibly worse) from disgruntled exiles and refugees (there are a quarter of a million Iron Curtain exiles in Britain) had been expected and discounted. But where were the lipstick-heavy shopgirls and the schoolchildren eager to be bemused by the roly-poly Russians? The subtle, artful labors of Foreign Office schedulemakers, hoping to keep B. & K. from public contact, had proved an unnecessary precaution...
...feel like misbehaving, there is always the show. On weekend evenings at seven, dozens of fresh-young things with fresh lipstick are escorted into the dining halls. Here the grand art of judging by appearances approaches perfection. Several steps inside the door, every girl has revealed to the voluble connoisseurs whether she is wearing a girdle, and some virtuosos can tell you the brand name. Half a dozen steps further, and she has popped in and out of bed with every man in the room, and even the finicky ones are experimentally tipping their heads sideways. a few steps further...
...paper hired him as a shorthand specialist and put him to covering the late William Cardinal O'Connell. Dinneen and the cardinal got along well enough, after their fashion. Once, on a ship during a pilgrimage to Rome, Cardinal O'Connell noticed a young lady applying lipstick, upbraided her severely. That evening, while the cardinal relaxed over a glass of port and a cigar, Dinneen asked him why he had been so rough on the girl. "The Holy Virgin Mary didn't use lipstick," said the cardinal. Retorted Dinneen: "And Jesus Christ didn't smoke cigars...
...rush on lipstick is yet to come...