Word: mannish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eugene Gilbert: "There is a general upturn in the appearance of both boys and girls from the lower middle class on up." Gimbel's department store pitched its ads to "the neat generation." Chicago-area stores reported that their best sales to teen-age girls came in conservative, mannish-looking apparel: vests, West Point-styled jackets, wool poncho capes, hooded sweaters and jackets called "benchwarmers." New York's Peck & Peck said that sales from its mail-order back-to-school brochure are running 23% ahead of last year. Biggest demand is for old standbys such as polo...
...before her cliff-hanging rejection of Group Captain Peter Townsend, Margaret had turned up for the races at London's suburban Hurst Park in an outfit that, for once, really stunned fashionabobs. Her arresting getup: a heavy, goblin-style hat, a fur-collared, knee-length cloth coat with mannish lapels, a dress of another material but with black buttons matching the coat's, shoes and handbag in suede, the whole incongruously teamed with pigskin gloves, a pearl necklace. Polled for their views, the fashion experts, all insisting on anonymity, gasped politely at Margaret's rebellion. Said...
...much time at the bottom of an aquarium. The swimming pool is covered with a green scum; the magnificent halls are damp and echoing; the pupils riot over a dinner of sausage and potatoes. There are four teachers: two male nonentities and two striking women -frail Vera Clouzot and mannish but beautiful Simone Signoret. Headmaster Paul Meurisse is a reptilian thug who is married to Vera, keeps Simone as his mistress, and treats both of the women abominably...
Farnsworth and Binger agreed that there should be no distinction between the education of men and women, "as far as top-level planners are concerned." Binger felt that this lack of differentiation "sometimes develops mannish attitudes in women," but that this is often a device to hide inner turmoil and instability...
...read a paid advertisement last week in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. But more was involved than a change of name. The Hon. Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill, second daughter of the 18th Baron Sempill (who is also a baronet), had always been a mannish sort of a girl. A brilliant student who loved to flex her muscles in such masculine pastimes as hunting, shooting and fishing, she deplored the necessity of making a formal debut in London clad in feminine frills. Later on, after getting her M.D., she became the popular local doctor in the Scottish village of Alford...