Word: petticoats
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...Last of all, I believe in the 'disregard' game, which consists of strolling nonchalantly by the procession and completely ignoring every likely petticoat. This is the subtlest of my tricks and can only be practiced by an intelligent person. Occasionally -- nay, perhaps more than that -- even this will not bring response. In that case, there is but one other alternative: hurry over to Radcliffe; they're forever home...
...faced Schoolmistress Throssel as the girl whom he once compared, in a nice turn of rhetoric, to a garden, she creates a new identity for herself-that of Livvy, her imaginary niece. Artifice having restored the necessary ringlets, dashing Valentine conspires to his own defeat. After succumbing to her petticoat ambush, he saves the reputation of Miss Throssel by sending home the coquettish Livvy in the form of a bolster in shawl and bonnet, under the scandal-hungry eyes of all Quality Street...
...White Russian, Lydia Pavlovna Koudoyarov. No sooner had they been married than Oilman Deterding assumed the role of Fairy Godfather to destitute White Russians all over the world, glad-handed them thousands from his ample purse. Pleased Nazis, attributing Sir Henri's latest outburst of munificence to "petticoat philanthropy," felt grateful last week that the new Lady Deterding is not Chinese or French...
...like abstractions he paints in his spare time and which he has never tried to sell. Not until after the Arts Decoratifs Exposition of 1925 did he gain an international reputation as a builder. By that time many a young architect was working on the problem of stripping the petticoat from architecture and making honest use of modern materials in building. But it remained for Le Corbusier to supply the crackling phrases which often did more to promote and popularize modern architecture than any number of houses in that style designed by less articulate fellow-workmen. Architect Le Corbusier...
...Youth," "Lost Horizons," Britisher Van Druten's "The Distaff Side," and Kauffman's tourde-force play given backwards, "Merilly We Roll Along." However there was probably nothing more important to substitute in place of one of these four, except possibly the hilarious saga of a bersek British explorer in "Petticoat Fever," or the libretto of the excellent musical "Anything Goes." Of course it was a mistake to leave out "Tobacco Road," the morbid view of the Southern backwoods, a native melodrama which is nearing the end of its second year on Broadway. But the most important event of the year...