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From peers to paupers the major chitsy-chatsy of Londoners was how they got fugitive eggs, lipstick, fruits, silk stockings, perfume, clothes. At a dinner party recently a peer's daughter triumphantly announced that she had persuaded her dressmaker to sell her a new suit without the required coupons. A politician's wife proudly reported buying a fur coat (18 coupons) with no coupons whatever (she contended the garment was secondhand because it had been worn by a mannequin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How to Beat Rationing | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...approved the release of brass for lamps and lipstick holders, disapproved release of brass for religious medals that the Holy Name Society wanted to give Catholic soldiers. When the news seeped out last week, six tons of "high brass" were released for medals pronto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Plain Speaking in England | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...tell you." Consort Magda Lupescu, whose given name the curious had discovered was Elena, whose body was taller and thinner than rumor whose hair was blonder than red and had never had a permanent, dazzled the populace with a chiffon blouse, outsize earrings. an anklet, white powder, orange lipstick,' blue eyeshadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Drowned. Amy Johnson Mollison, 37, No. 1 British aviatrix, who flew the Atlantic in July 1933 with her since-divorced husband, Captain James Mollison (their only baggage her lipstick); when she bailed out over the Thames estuary from a warplane she was ferrying from a factory to an airdrome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Near Ashland, Wis., Evelyn Kramer took a shot at a buck. It didn't move a step. Hastily she rammed in another shell, pulled the trigger, got no report. By the time she had opened the breech and extracted her lipstick case from the shell chamber, the buck had dropped - dead from the first shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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