Word: lipsticking
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...that women are willing to leave their husbands outside but not their dogs, passed a bill barring dogs, cats, and other pets from hotel rooms and tourist camps. In Nashville, for the protection of married men, a bill was introduced in the Legislature which would make the wearing of lipstick a felony. In Durham, N.C., State Senator R. A. Whitaker introduced a bill to forbid public, habitual drunkenness among judges...
...Earl of Halifax, Britain's gaunt, impenetrably gentlemanly Ambassador to the U.S., deftly parried a U.S. housewives' rumor that Britain has used Lend-Lease lipstick to prettify English girls for lonely G.I.s. Said Halifax: "Lipstick [is] the easiest and quickest way to mark on a war casualty's clothes what and where his wounds...
...Angeles' tenderloin he gulped his whiskey neat. After two days his hand was unsteady. But even after he bought the butcher knife, nobody could tell what he was thinking. When a woman smiled at him over a drink, he smiled back. She was a big, young woman, with lipstick smeared too heavily on her lips. Her name was Virgie. She was married, but her husband was away, and she liked a good time. He held her arm, gallantly, as they crossed the street in the rain and dark to the old Barclay Hotel...
...Boston's exclusive Athenaeum Library, with its rare books for scholarly research, is permitted by card only. Occasionally Radcliffe students of special merit are given cards to the Library, to the horror of older members. "Why," declared one indignant Back Bay lady, "these young women come in with their lipstick and their fur coats, and actually ask for scholarly books, thereby adding hypocrisy to their other sins!"--Readers Digest, September...
...Thousand Thousand." In Vancouver, B.C., teen-age girls indulged in a city-wide orgy of kissing inanimate objects, planted lipstick on mirrors, windowpanes, restaurant saucers, doorknobs, milk bottles, billboards. Nobody knew...