Word: petticoats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord liked her letter, all right. It was right up his alley. Mollie arrived in a parasol of a beaver hat, a blousy frock with petticoat ruffles showing at the bottom over high-buttoned shoes. At her neck was a ruff of fluffy lace, setting off a face of infinite fiftyish sweetness. Lord read her letter over the air, let Mollie put in her own plea for fat boys. Next day they took her to the big stores, let her ride the escalators, bought her $50 worth of odds and ends, packed her off home...
...girl, that was old enough to be married, had a suitor who had been a few times to see her, the parents, if they approved of the connection, would-what they called-bundle them; which bundling implied, putting them to bed together, the lady with only her under-petticoat on, and her sweetheart nothing but his breeches." Although this practice was denounced in some quarters as "that mischievous, wicked habit," in 1840 a commentator remarked: "Ten irregular citizens are now born to the republic, for one in those days of bundling simplicity...
...been offended by this candid camera record of female Washington. First Lady is an almost exact celluloid reproduction of the play by Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman on which it is based. Its quips are badinage rather than satire, and direct their wit at the immemorial field of petticoat intrigue rather than at any particular person...
...president of the Dramatic Club, Hart directed last spring's production of "The Dog Beneath the Skin" and is directing the production of his own play. In the past he has associated with Aldrich and de Liagre in producing "Petticoat Fever," "Three Cornered Moon" and "Pure in Heart...
...limp that never left him. When he began peddling stove polish of his own manufacture, he made more money, soon owned a tailor shop, a grocery store, became a wholesaler for household goods, made a small fortune speculating in foodstuffs during the Civil War, a larger one importing petticoat lace from Switzerland. Needing little prompting, his sons, assured by their father that they would each make a million dollars, entered the business as soon as they got out of short pants...