Word: midriffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a "Y-front," presumably for Yale men, which protects squirmers from becoming "nervous nonentities" and "makes sitting a joy." Soon comes Mr. 1937 stepping out in "the new order of the day in next-to-body wear for men," which for a nominal fee gives you "a flat midriff and a military swing...
...West Point of Spain. The farce began on July 21 when the Red radio of Madrid announced that Commandant José Moscardó and his 1,400 soldiers and spruce Spanish cadets had surrendered to 10,000 peasants under radical General Riquelmo. This broadcast was a midriff laugh to all Spanish officers who know the stuff of which their West Pointers are made. With a rabble overrunning the town of Toledo, some 400 middle class women and children sought shelter with the cadets in the Alcázar, an ancient fortress-castle with walls six feet thick built...
...drama, "Bright Star" which is now enjoying a short Boston run at the Plymouth prior to Tuesday's New York opening. Although quite completely absorbed in the problem which he has created Mr. Barry has studded his work with a steady dialogue flow of straight forward, crisp and frequently midriff-striking lines. The problem none the less, is the thing...
...700th birthday of their fusty little city, proud burghers of Emmerich feted the dressiest Nazi. Beefy Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring constantly designs new uniforms to button around his barrel midriff and is said to have caused the Queen of Siam to remark, "He must eat a lot of rice?but no, in Germany it is potatoes." Utterly dazzled by Premier Göring's appearance at Emmerich, the local Tageblatt dashed off a fashion note which Czechoslovak papers picked up last week and printed under mocking headlines...
...Worth (TIME, July 25, 1927), by Stuart Chase & F. J. Schlink, and 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (1933), by F. J. Schlink and Arthur Kallet, lifted the lid on some cynical advertising secrets. Last week, amid cries of "Foul!" from its partisans, advertising took a shrewd blow to the midriff from a onetime hireling. Onetime Adman Rorty is no reformed copywriter, for his heart was never in his job ; no reformer either, for he thinks the present "unstable equilibrium" necessitates "the adman's foot on the throttle, speeding up consumption, preaching emulative expenditure, 'styling' clothes, kitchens, automobiles...