Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into a big easy chair, grabs the evening paper and turns to the racing page. He is unmistakably boss at home. His wife is two inches taller than he is, but Arcaro likes her to wear extra high heels because he says it makes a woman's legs look prettier. For a while, he was red-hot on airplanes, bought one, and learned to fly it. But he got over it, just as he also cooled off on previous enthusiasms for bridge, tennis and backyard barbecues. The only sports he has never tired of are fishing, golf (he plays...
...distaff side of the Leverett serving line averages ten years younger and 100 smiles prettier than any other aggregation
Although handy with a megaphone, Ozzie was never a great singer. So he hired Harriet Hilliard to share the bandstand spotlight. Harriet couldn't sing much better than Ozzie, but she was considerably prettier. Together they improvised a "talky-type song-a "back & forth, boy & girl" exchange that the customers loved. They were married...
...women were prettier and the drunks were drunker, but it all seemed very human. People who drove too fast had accidents, people who drank too much got sick, and half the people who made bets lost them...
Elsewhere life was much prettier. Alabama's 38-year-old Governor Jim Folsom, who stands 6 ft. 8 in. and goes in for the homespun manner, went calling on the 18-year-old daughter of California's Governor Earl Warren. The press was promptly awash in dewy anticipation. "We did a little sight-seein'," reported Folsom, a widower and father of two. "And ... we had some dinner and dancin'." Was it serious between him and Virginia? "That's a 'no comment' question, honey," said he. But he was shortly moved to an extension...