Word: minke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...franchised some 480 apostles around the country to teach "White Gloves and Party Manners" at $15 an hour, and enrollment has tripled in the past two years. Like a number of others, she credits the new mood to Ronald Reagan (and let us not forget Nancy and all those mink coats at the Inauguration and the $210,000 new chinaware at the White House). Says Stewart: "One of the greatest things this President has brought is good manners. He shows you can be nice to your wife and comfortable with her admiring you. It's a fabulous example...
...Arden plan to introduce new ones within a few months. Prices range from $1.99 for 2½ oz. of Free Hold, up to $13.95 for 15 oz. of Helene Curtis' brand. There are foams for normal and fine hair and ones that contain jojoba, vitamin E and even mink oil. Alberto-Culver has a mousse for black hair styles; Conair's Jheri Redding line offers "flavors," such as chocolate for brunets and strawberry for auburn heads...
...which the models included the wives of James Baker, Jack Kemp and Robert Michel. They were introduced by both their own name and their husband's name, and a notation of the number of children each had. The hit of the runway parade was a 3-ft.-tall mink elephant...
...wish you could have seen the wonderfully decadent Western luxuries bestowed on the new Miss Universe, a sweet 21-year-old nurse from Sweden named Yvonne Ryding. She started with breakfast in bed and will soon get all new clothes to go with her beautiful new mink, a car and a boat and so many other things I can't list them all. I wish it had been me, but I am still proud to have been the first to represent our country in this great spectacle...
...Tokyo regional taxation bureau last month accused some of the country's 200,000 Buddhist priests of ignoring that admonition. One, it said, had used unreported income to maintain two mistresses. Another presented his wife with a $95,000 mink coat and a diamond ring worth...