Word: lipsticking
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Washrooms are full of fuss and flutter, and the babbling confusion of Marines in undress waiting to take showers, crowding around mirrors to put their hair in curlers and massaging their faces with creams. In the grey dawn they comb out the pin curls, feverishly powder noses, paint on lipstick (which matches the Marine red hat-cord) and dash off to breakfast and their duties...
...patience of Army postal officers was at an end. They issued a stern edict: after St. Valentine's Day, imprints of lipstick will no longer be tolerated on Vmail...
...propagandized soldiers in the years of the revolution. In 1932, after Stalin issued his famous dictum: Let us be gay, Comrades, Mme. Molotov became head of the Soviet perfume trust. Said she of her work: "My husband works on their souls, I on their faces." She put rouge and lipstick on the face of Russia's womanhood, filled Russia's air with the odor of cheap perfume. In the interest of cosmetics, she visited the U.S. in 1936, lunched with Mrs. Roosevelt, bought machinery...
Although some of the other girls drew more gallery whistles, the decorum-conscious judges chose decorous Miss California, 19-year-old Jean Bartel of Los Angeles, as Miss America 1943. (Cash value of the title: $10,000 in lipstick endorsements, war-bond prizes, theatrical engagements, etc.) Of the ten finalists, she shared with Miss Minnesota the distinction of being tallest (5 ft. 8 in.), heaviest (130 lb.), and possessor of the biggest feet (8B). She tied for the biggest bust (36 in.). But she had the dignity the judges were after, proved it by posing an hour and a half...
...control tower of the Atlanta airport WAVE Haughton bit all the lipstick off her lips last week. Cause: nervousness at bringing in her first plane with an admiral at the controls. But four hours later she sent him out as smoothly, calmly as if she had been running an airport-control tower since Kitty Hawk. This time there was no damage to cosmetics. She had heard the Admiral, George D. Murray, who commanded the Hornet, pronounce her work excellent...