Word: mannikins
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...marches in with calipers and measuring tape. She measures the baby from head to foot- feet, shins, thighs; hands, forearms, arms; feet to crest of head, rump to top of head; breadth and depth of head. The baby may wriggle and mew but willy-nilly he is one more mannikin in a long, laborious, illuminating research...
Having finally eased one's self out of the Hotel via the inimitable revolving doors, ride up Connecticut Avenue to Restaurant Pierre's on the second floor of a "cute little building." Here one may partake of hors d'oeuvre, sip an Old-Fashioned, feel embarrassed when a mannikin displaying her wares is taken for somebody else displaying her wares. Feel provincial, as one listens to a sparkling conversation in French between two First Secretaries of embassies--or perhaps "they're only military attaches." Point out to your friend that "that new stylists hats looks like George Washington...
...checks with which Swindler Stavisky is supposed to have bribed his way to power. Last week in the municipal pawnshop of Orleans he discovered the missing jewels. After Stavisky's death no trace of them could be found. Inspector Bony discovered a bright-eyed pretty little mannikin who led him straight to the Orleans pawnshop and a cardboard box containing gems valued at $78,000 which Stavisky was in the habit of putting up from time to time for rush loans. During the week two men closely connected with the case attempted to commit suicide. Scrabbling through the Stavisky...
Days Without End (by Eugene O'Neill; produced by the Theatre Guild). There is something extraordinary about every Eugene O'Neill play. In this one it is a ferocious mannikin with unbrushed hair, a flat, angry voice and a perpetual frown. He (Stanley Ridges) is the personification of the lower self that belongs to the hero, John Loving (Earle Larimore), visible to the audience whenever Loving is on the stage but never to the other people in the play. In the first act, Loving and his gloomy shadow are to be seen seated, like the riders...
...this power was suddenly switched like a high-voltage current into St. George's some weeks ago, the object being to elect one Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. This inoffensive knight, the irregular Conservative candidate, was not originally the presslords' mannikin. He entered the lists at St. George's supported by a dignified group of manufacturers who wanted to air the issue of high protective tariffs v. low protective tariff or "safeguarding." Sir Ernest Petter was to advocate high tariffs, and the regular Conservative candidate. Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of beauteous Lady Diana Manners, would of course support "safeguarding...