Word: poses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Famed playground for Manhattan's proudest, where charming matrons pose for Sunday supplements in shimmering white creations, white hats, white parasols, where the soughing heather of the Shinnecock Hills creeps cautiously down to the Atlantic billows...
Through quaint and Alpine Salzburg, in Austria, prowled last week a Manhattanite with a tiny cinema camera. While local mountaineers gawked he accosted a honey-haired Diana, persuaded her to pose before a crazily swung gate, "shot" Maria Jeritza...
...think I am-President Coolidge?" This was Vice President Dawes' way of informing Chicago camera men that he did not wish to be photographed in fishing garb before leaving for Colorado. Said Mr. Dawes: "If President Coolidge wants to pose for fishing pictures, all right, but I won't." At White Pine Camp the President has not been photographed in actual piscatorial encounter, but his merest fishing experience has been nationally recounted. Mr. Dawes intends to capture trout in the Rocky Mountain streams, unseen, unpublished. Four years come and go, and again sweltering delegates in some hot metropolis...
Boarding the S. S. Conte Biancamano, Nobile, resplendent in his white uniform, refused to pose for photographers until brought his Titina by an attendant who had been separated from him by milling mobs of Italians and detained by ignorant police. "I am sorry to leave America," he then said, strik- ing an attitude beside his swart friend, Rudolph Valentino, "and I am glad to be going home...
...young females forgot their troubles in the decadent thrill of examining, preening and comparing lips. When the winner was announced -a Manhattan nymph, of course, "a dainty little married woman... Christine League"-the Mirror published a close-up photograph of her provocative cupid-bow orifice upraised in "the pose in which Christine's hubby says he likes her best." Another offering the Mirror made last week was a discussion of what constitutes true beauty in the female form. The idea the editors tried to get across was that "flat flappers" are not desirable, that dieting is therefore foolish. Voluptuous...