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Word: neckdeep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showman Ziegfeld remembered reading that a famed French beauty bathed in asses' milk. He ordered gallons of milk sent to Actress Held's apartment, waited. The milk company sued him; newshawks asked the reason for so huge a bill. Ziegfeld exhibited to them smiling Anna neckdeep in a milk-filled bath tub. That and her wasp-waist made her famous. He divorced her in 1912. She died in 1918, crippled by her corsets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Glorifier's End | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

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