Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss America contests. Judging took so long that the master of ceremonies ran out of gags, took to reading comic strips aloud. Said Sergeant Silvagni's wife, a bathing-beauty expert: "I thought they'd be a bunch of dogs this time. But they're prettier than I expected. They're not made up too much, for a change. It's the Ingrid Bergman influence...
Teresa's rise toward stardom has been without benefit of glamor. Neither prettier nor shapelier than thousands of other American girls, Cinemactress Wright has not got what it takes to become a blonde comet. Thus reduced to brains and ability, she has adamantly refused to trick them out with fake publicity. She also persists in her right to lead a private life. When her boss's head publicity man revealed her engagement to Scriptwriter Niven Busch before she had informed her closest friends, Sam Goldwyn had to take her aside and tell her the facts of Hollywood life...
...build morale. . . . It won't help a fighting man. . . . It won't help preserve our way of life. . . . All Monteil's fine lipstick will do is to make you look prettier. If it's Victory you want . . . BETTER BUY BONDS...
...doctors in urban centers could not begin to take care of those in need of treatment. When to all this we add the consideration that wartime rationing and privation invariably result in a lowering of the public health and often result in plagues, the picture is not made prettier...
Even the U.S. Post Office knows who Maisie is. Fan letters addressed simply "Maisie, U.S.A." go straight to the Sothern household-a two-story colonial house in Beverly Hills complete with husband (Band Leader Roger Pryor), whose legs, boasts Ann, are prettier than Dietrich...