Word: petticoats
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...them. Big newspaper advertisements challenged Canada's manhood: "You will never join the Victory Parade in Berlin by sitting in an easy chair." The Army's Recruiting Director, Brigadier James Mess, broadcast to Canadians still at home and fit for battle: "You . . . cannot hide behind a petticoat, whether it be your wife's or your mother...
...blonde, 5-ft.-7-in. coach was besieged by photographers loaded down with helmets, shoulder pads, other props, begging her to pose for horseplay photos. The only picture they got was a conservative Pauline in sweater and pearls. They tackled her with such obvious questions as: How does a petticoat coach throw a body block? Coach Pauline disarmingly straight-armed them: an assistant (male) will demonstrate all body contact plays...
...Hays office, in bed with her), Mr. Power gives Miss O'Hara and cinemaddicts an eyeful of his expensive torso. Later he kidnaps her aboard his ship, The Revenge, wolfs roast fowl at her in the Henry VIII manner. She succumbs. She stands by in a petticoat while, in a frenzy of rapiers, broadsides and bloated sails, Jamie-Boy and Governor Morgan liquidate Leech and crew. Occasionally Mr. Power has flashes of Douglas Fairbanks. Most of the time he is just a tougher-than-normal Tyrone Power. The aloof and lordly ships, whenever they get a chance, sail majestically...
Bustle-Ridden Rabelais. The myth of Mark Twain as a frustrated, bustle-ridden Rabelais (see Van Wyck Brooks's The Ordeal of Mark Twain) is nearly dead. DeVoto has done more than any other critic to kill that petticoat ghost, but in this book, with fresh evidence at hand, he gives it another kicking around. The author of the ribald 1601-itself a symptom of inhibition-needed neither his staid friend William Dean Howells nor his gentle wife Olivia to wash out his mouth with soap. Mark Twain, says DeVoto, "was almost lustfully hypersensitive to sex in print...
...Paul Revere. He had helped put them there. His ride was a cool, businesslike night's work, but at first Revere was rattled. He had forgotten to bring his spurs and a cloth to muffle his oarlocks. A girl friend of one of the oarsmen gave them her petticoat ("still warm") for the oars. Revere used to tell his children how his dog ran home with a note from him and came back with the spurs. In his old age he described the beginning of the adventure in a line more alive than any ever written about...