Word: mustards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris' fall fashion shows opened, and Schiaparelli's outstanding contribution proved to be a bustle-a bustle on almost everything. Molyneux's favorite colors sounded like sublimations: butter yellow, burnt orange, light mustard. Favorite couturière of the boulevardiers was doubtless Mlle. Alixt: she had daytime dresses with necklines clear to the waistline...
...attraction to both sects is its remoteness. Nine miles from the mainland, it has only one link with the world: a ferry which makes the trip twice daily. Nowhere is there a radio, a telephone or a newspaper; the Island's ancient Oceanic Hotel, built in 1873 by mustard tycoon John R. Poor (a Unitarian), has no running water, no baths. Said Congregationalist "Shoaler" Donald A. Adams: "You have nothing else to think about except religion...
...Missouri county judge. In the '30s, not by his own momentum but by the chance whim of a political boss, he was in the U.S. Senate. As 1945 began he was Vice President, a man struck by political lightning at the Chicago convention while eating a hotdog with mustard...
...rented a goat that "naa-a-a-ed" when he twisted its tail. In Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Jeep, the Slickers ripped apart an old auto. When these musical effects proved inadequate to Spike's demands, the band members crunched English walnuts in their teeth, ripped mustard plasters off each other's chests. They did it with considerable and conscious musicianship. Says Spike: "They're like comedy acrobats. They have to be twice as good to take the pratfalls...
...almost prohibitive lots. To be sold in one bunch were: 1) $827,808 worth of auto batteries; 2) $100,000 lots of telephones, radios and medical gadgets; 3) 50 Denhardt mouth gags (a bargain at $3.49 apiece) if the purchaser also agreed to buy a few thousand jar covers, mustard pots and large ladles...