Word: mannequins
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...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...
...campaign was lyric. Baring a blinding smile, tossing his wavy locks, Mr. Zeidler popped up everywhere. Six hundred women, gathered at the Elks Club one afternoon, were surprised and thrilled to see Candidate Zeidler step out beside a lovely brunette mannequin in a bridal gown, and taking her arm, walk down the aisle singing I Love You Truly. Six hundred lumps filled 600 throats. While Dan Hoan, in his twangy voice, reminded Milwaukeeans that he had given them a city free of political scandal, free of crime, with a model police force and fire department, a city debt that...
...three sons, two were disappointments. Heinrich, the eldest, married a Hungarian noblewoman, was made a baron of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin mannequin, who was later severely injured in the motor accident in which Prince Serge Mdivani, ex-husband of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, was killed. The youngest, August Jr., became embittered at his father and had visions of founding an industrial empire of his own. Father August ran Son August into bankruptcy...
...screen, his private life was as romantic as his public. He traveled everywhere. His second wife was Mary ("America's Sweetheart") Pickford. Even when he was past 50, he leaped fences rather than go through gates, married the divorced wife of a British nobleman (a onetime mannequin), 20 years younger than himself...