Word: nightgowns
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...feature section. It was a three-quarter-page colored panel titled The Great Dog Show in M'Googan's Avenue, and peopled with alley cats, stray hounds and slum bums in high-society clothes. Strutting in its center was a child in a bright yellow nightgown, whose slightly oriental face was sharp with precocious malice. The nasty creature was named The Yellow Kid, and his guttersnipe antics were soon on every New Yorker's tongue. It was the first successful comic strip...
...World's shrewd Publisher Joseph Pulitzer set Artist Richard Outcault to drawing more of the same, with the Kid's speeches lettered on his yellow nightgown. Over at the New York Journal, William Randolph Hearst fumed at the new weapon introduced into his bitter circulation war with Pulitzer. In October Hearst announced his own new color section: "eight pages of iridescent polychromous effulgence that makes the rainbow look like a piece of lead pipe." Its star attraction: The Yellow Kid; Hearst had lured Outcault away. To replace him, Pulitzer hired George Luks, then a little-known painter...
...plot in the piece is about as substantial as a black chiffon nightgown and not half as exciting. Botty Grable, the first woman typist, is sent to Boston to work in an office which soon feels the impact of the distaff side as spitoons go out and chintz comes in. You won't be surprised to know that Dick Haymes is the thriving, moderately blue-blooded manager of the company. Emancipated at last, Miss Grable is soon deep in the suffrage movement, of which Mr. Haymes does not approve. Take it from there...
...Ensign David Flohr of Banana River, Fla., passed along a current idiom. In a letter to LIFE, praising a picture of Rita Hayworth in a sheer nightgown, he cried: "She's really Mello-Rooney, Viddle...
...fifth-floor window, a man tossed out a sheet rope, stepped back into the room, and was not seen again. In another window stood a girl in a white nightgown which blazed up suddenly before she jumped. Above her, a man swayed in a panel of flame, rolling his head from side to side. Around him, guests huddled and crawled on ledges to escape deadly gas and smoke, dangled from sheet ropes over fire-belching windows, and leaped for safety nets. Some hit with such force that the nets were torn from firemen's hands. As a girl jumped...