Word: pompom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mess to pour over his peaches and ice cream-a blatant violation of nonalcoholic Navy Regulations. At a ship's party in Guam, the skipper ordered Generous to sit cross-legged at his feet, and had another officer roll up his trouser legs and act as a "pompom girl." He also ordered his officers to give impromptu speeches at dinner on cultural subjects (sample theme: "Opera-Box Etiquette in Milano"). But it was Arnheiter's gung-ho tactics in combat off Viet Nam that really upset the junior officers...
...long last, a Hollywood production designer has learned something about the true-life tastes of the tasteful rich. Everybody is beautiful, worldly and fairly damned-everybody, that is, except Actress Reynolds, who, after ten years in pictures and a highly publicized scandal-divorce, is still playing the head pompom girl of Beverly Hills High...