Word: petticoats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gathered the back of the skirts in her right hand, swirling them forward, so the ruffled lining and frilled silk petticoat showed above her ankles and you could see ten inches of her high-heeled buttoned shoes. She held her pocketbook in her left hand but managed to pick up just a pinch of skirt above her knee with the thumb and the forefinger. Holding her skirts that way molded her thighs and showed every beautiful curve of her figure. As she stepped over the curb to the cobblestones, she raised her eyes to the house next door...
Oldsters who can remember the Chester A. Arthur era of U. S. horse racing will never forget Monmouth Park. There, on the petticoat of Jersey's fashionable Long Branch, the Jersey Derby set a vogue for U.S. derbies. There, in 1872, in one of the greatest match races of all time, Longfellow, son of British-bred Leamington, licked Harry Bassett, son of Kentucky-bred Lexington. There, in 1890, James Ben Ali Haggin's immortal Salvator ran a mile in 1:35½-a record that stood for over a quarter of a century...
...stage the October Revolution, conducted the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Germany. Because it seemed a major point of proletarian protocol, he wired Lenin to ask whether he should wear a tailcoat to the peace celebration. Lenin answered: "If it will help to bring peace, go in a petticoat...
...Petticoat," stretched the old lady...
...most provocative patriotism in the world wear your stars and stripes "undercover"! Let a star-struck slip skitter out from under your navy blue suit. Wear a boldly striped petticoat with a witty bombardment of stars on its bodice. The whole idea's as fresh and vivid as the red carnation in your best bean's buttonhole. It's as deliciously daring as the gusty winds of March will let you be. Macy...