Word: midriff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where & when of the words used. What was libelous years ago may not be libelous today, and vice versa. "In the days of the bustle and crinoline [a description or] picture of a woman . . . showing her legs naked to the thighs, shoulders bare above the breast, with a scanty midriff covering, would have been libelous," says Wittenberg. "Today, women of the best families .'. . are depicted daily and on Sundays . . . [thus] scantily clad...
After that, it was nip & tuck. The five finalists looked almost equally spectacular in evening dresses or in bathing suits (two-piecers, exposing the midriff, were worn for the first time). "Talent" proved the deciding factor...
...Paris, the poor huddled in the metro and the rich, wearing overcoats, huddled in the Crillon bar. The statuesque stone Zouave emerging from the Seine at the Pont de l'Alma wore a girdle of solid ice around his midriff. The soft silk draped around slender mannequins at Molyneux's, Lanvin's and Worth's felt as cold as the Zouave's ice. The Paris Models' Union announced that the wages for its members posing nude in unheated studios would be upped 30? an hour, effective "as soon as the model complains of chair...
...Smooth. "Another striking thing is the prose style of the advertisements, an extraordinary mixture of sheer lushness with clipped and sometimes very expensive technical jargon. Words like suave-mannered, custom-finished, contour-conforming, mitt-back, innersole, backdip, midriff, swoosh, swash, curvaceous, slenderize and pet-smooth are flung about with evident full expectation that the reader will understand them at a glance...
Doctors who had been prescribing penicillin as casually as aspirin were suddenly socked in the midriff. The'reason: real knowledge about penicillin is pitifully small...