Word: mannequins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly at 3 o'clock a bosomy mannequin opened the show with a novelty uniform Madame had designed for Chinese airline stewardesses. As she swaggered down a long black runner on the lawn, guests clapped politely and flicked their cigarets on the grass. Occasionally they cast nervous glances at the overcast, wondered if rain would come to spoil the show...
...Alexandra Mary Windsor comes of age. Briton No. SWGC 55-1 to the national registration office. "Betts" to her family, Princess Elizabeth to the world, on her 18th birthday she becomes Heiress Presumptive to the British throne. Should anything happen to her serious, doting father, King George VI, this mannequin-tall (5 ft. 6½ in.), pretty but not yet handsome girl will become Queen. Her great-great-grandmother, Victoria, reached that estate when she was 27 days past...
...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...
...guest-to-be, Jane Monroe is president of the Club Mannequin, a group of Boston models which was roused to vociferous anger by the 'Poon's invitation to Hollywood actress Marjorie Woodworth to their frolic when so many beautiful girls were hanging around Boston...
...last moment, high-strung Stylist Norman Hartnell decided that one of his mannequins, delightful Miss Ricki Richardson, who is expected to be a riot in South America, simply would not do for presentation to Their Majesties. Abruptly Mr. Hartnell substituted for Ricki Richardson a mannequin who has often modeled for Queen Elizabeth, majestic Daphne Osborn Jenkyn. Miss Jenkyn was introduced to Her Majesty as Miss Richardson. But The Queen called her "Jenkyn...