Word: peplum
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Some C.I.O. couturiers were already making advance showings. The oil workers, first to display last year's trend, were out with the 25?-an-hour pattern. The rubber workers liked the design, but added a penny's worth of peplum and made it 26?. The autoworkers were busy with several patterns, ranging from 20? to 35?, but they were all based on the same theme: wage increases must follow the increase in living costs. The C.I.O. thinks that by Dec. 1 living costs will have risen about 25% over last year...
Specifically the great aircraft engine makers, Hispano-Suiza, sent famed Sacha Guitry's good friend, Mlle Claude May, to win a Grand Prix d'Honneur in starched organdie with peplum jacket and one of their dazzling cars. More conservative, the Delage Company sent Mme Paul Cartier, daughter of a onetime Imperial Russian oil tycoon and wife of a small Geneva banker, to be "crowned" La Laur...
...wall of the first chamber. Around the walls of the first were eight sarcophagi: four with reclining effigies of the dead and four with pyramidal covers. Of these only two were available. One representing a man is in Philadelphia and the other of a woman wearing a peplum is the one given to Harvard. It bears an inscription on its face. The second chamber was rectangular in shape and was probably used to lower the sarcophagus. In this chamber were nine sarcophagi of stone and one of terracotta. This last is in the Free Museum of Science...