Word: lipsticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Althea's sister Millie (she has three sisters and a brother) recalls: "Althea was out in the street all the time. We used to have to drag her back into the house. When other girls were putting on lipstick, she was playing stickball. When she got a whipping, she never cried. She just stood there and took it." At P.S. 136, Althea was a chronic truant; she played hooky and played Softball with the boys in Central Park. She also played forward on a basketball team called "The Mysterious Five," which practiced at the 134th Street Boys Club...
...suitcase with two belts tied around it. She was wearing an old skirt; she'd never owned a dress in her life. My wife bought her a few dresses and tried to make her more feminine by getting her straight hair curled and showing her how to use lipstick...
...bride. This is the moment you've been waiting for. This Bell portable sewing machine, the world's finest. This gleaming Westinghouse freezer brings you beauty, convenience, economy. You'll be at your loveliest with a two-year supply of Tangee's Tropicana Orange lipstick. The next prize ... I mean gift," etc., etc. Then came the topper: "a special, never-to-be-forgotten present"-an Esther Williams swimming pool. The benediction: "This is the National Broadcasting television network." Afterward, burly stagehands struck the chapel set and carted off the china and silverware, leaving the guests...
Tashlin's story is a fable of Madison Avenue: Rock Hunter's success in making Stay-Put Lipstick, his ad agency's biggest account, stay put. Hunter's own dream of success: to rise from his untouchable caste as TV commercial writer to possession of his own jewel-encrusted key to the executives' washroom. This glorious consummation (duly sanctified by a heavenly choir on the sound track) is realized through Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield), a squealing movie siren noted for her "oh-so-kissable lips" and her favorite boast ("All my lovers...
...attract search planes, went on using a salvaged bucket to melt snow (by body warmth) for drinking water. Every day she took pains to stand up and do a few exercises. Protected by several layers of clothing against the cold and sleet, she ticked off the days with lipstick on a nearby tree. But shock and exposure began to tell. After 19 days on Ferris Mountain, only twelve scarlet daubs were on the tree...