Word: mannequins
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...song recital was like a new Schiaparelli showing. The people who filled Manhattan's Carnegie Chamber Hall were largely buyers of music: singers, teachers and publishers. On stage, like a mannequin modeling a new plunging neckline, brown-haired, willowy Janet Fairbank paraded the latest creations in art songs. Tucked away in the corners of the auditorium were young composers, some of whose musical stitches and designs were being shown off for the first time in public...
...haunted the news again. French taxpayers were cheered by a decree of the Fourth Republic's Cabinet: the Government and the city of Bayonne would make good a majority of the fraudulent Stavisky bonds. But the fortune in jewels, which Stavisky gave to his wife, Arlette, an ex-mannequin and dancer, was still untraced. The former Arlette Stavisky, her terpsichorean tittups long forgotten, recently settled down with her husband, a U.S. Army captain, to a tranquil life in Puerto Rico...
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...