Word: petticoats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seldom as likable and never convincing. At best, he doggedly describes freshman themes, the lectures and the changing curricula. At worst, he peevishly rehearses "the arid one-testicled theories" of the American humanists, or sports, with grim intent, through an embarrassing parody called The Love Song of J. Freddie Petticoat by B. S. Idiom...
...frontier novel, with Martin Arrowsmith cast as Anthony Adverse. When a revival meeting comes to Adams, however, and Aaron, aged 25, finds himself at the mourners' bench without quite knowing how he got there, the book takes on a distinctive air that makes it unusual among drum-and-petticoat books and also among Lewis' own 20 previous novels. Aaron Gadd tries to be a Christian...
...long way from the days of Voltaire's Camargo, who was the first dancer to shorten her skirts, and Marie Sallé, who, in 1734, shocked a London correspondent into reporting that "she has dared to appear . . . without pannier, skirt or bodice . . . Apart from her corset and petticoat, she wore only a simple dress of muslin draped about her in the manner of a Greek statue...
...gloom between begins with a Manhattan street at night and an old couple on their darkening porch in Virginia, sweeps across London's Petticoat Lane, where people eat and try on clothes with the same grubby boredom, to Berliners dancing by a stagnant pool and a Viennese carnival in the background. Says Koerner: "Who is guilty, the man who kills or those who turn their backs? It's a sort of question...
...fashions and the New Look. As far as the three of them were concerned, the showing went off without a hitch-except for a passing remark by Boyd that one of the elegantly organized models' slip was showing. It turned out that it was a lace-trimmed petticoat-and it was supposed to show...