Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometime absence of her husband, Lord Snowdon, might well be discouraged by the catalogue of false rumors about her sister, Queen Elizabeth II, culled from the French press by Jean Marcilly, ex-editor in chief of France Dimanche. In Marcilly's survey, French papers have had the Queen pregnant 92 times, with nine miscarriages. She has been about to break up with Prince Philip 73 times, on the verge of abdicating 63 times, and near a nervous breakdown 32 times. And she has expelled Lord Snowdon from court no fewer than 151 times...
...enough to give the nonpregnant pause, two young Manhattan women have designed and are selling the Pregnancy Puff-an egg-shaped, beige satin pillow that ties on round the middle with pink and blue satin ribbons. It has just one function: worn under clothing, it makes a woman look pregnant...
...another, it is a surefire conversation piece at a cocktail party. She reports that one anxious mother bought a puff for her 17-year-old daughter to wear on a cross-country car trip, explaining that "she'll be safer if people think she's pregnant...
...says K.T. "We haven't had backaches or varicose veins, but we've developed some strange cravings." Adds Linda: "I've stopped chewing gum. A Madonna figure shouldn't chew gum." The Pregnancy Puff also seems to affect the beholder. "People think we're pregnant and tell us how great our complexions look," explains K.T. "They tell us we glow. And maybe we do, because we have this funny secret...
...Senator Thomas Dodd complained in open court: "Your Honor, it is difficult at best to argue against a woman attorney. But to argue against a woman attorney who is going to have a baby in ten days is downright unfair." Mrs. Murphy was capable as well as pregnant, and Dodd subsequently lost his libel suit against Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson...