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Word: prettier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaudeville acts. One of the best had a man in an upper berth peering at a girl in a lower as she got ready for bed. They have lots of creative imagination over there. Danish girls are a cross between the English and French, but they're prettier than either." ¶England-"The girls just aren't very sexy. The shows are all in private clubs, and they're uninhibited. But the girls have little expression, and they don't move too well." ¶France-"A Parisian girl can be sexy just holding a glass. Strippers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURLESQUE: Baedeker | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...flight to the suburbs and the new, casual living. But fault also lay with the hatmakers; hats became too silly even for women to wear. Says Designer Victor: "We forgot one thing-to make the hats pretty. All you have to do is show a woman that she looks prettier with a hat on than off, and money doesn't mean a thing." As hats became pretty again (Designer Victor scored with her flowered hats), sales rose, are expected this year to reach a postwar high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: SALLY VICTOR | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

From that moment Vincenzina knew what she must do. She bought a butcher knife, tucked it inside a newspaper and started walking. She found Ernesto, her first love, at a bus stop. "Vincenzina, you are prettier than ever," Ernesto began, but he did not finish. Vincenzina fell upon him with the knife, stabbing him in the chest and stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Honor Restored | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...noted with interest that our white sisters are investing $4 billion dollars a year in beauty aids and treatments. Certainly the money is well invested. Beauty makes the world a prettier place to live in. But I am sending you a picture of one of our Indian girls who is beautiful just as she is-with just a little help from the beauty industry. Her name is Madonna Blue Horse [see cut]. She is the 1958 winner of the "Marylike Contest" sponsored by the Holy Rosary Mission of Pine Ridge, S. Dak., the largest Indian mission in our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...would be nice if the men in University Hall (who sit behind well polished mahogany desks) gave the professors a real lectern. But results might come faster and prettier if Professors Bate, Demos, Friedrich, Harbage, and Schlesinger all chipped in and bought one them selves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Strong Stand | 12/18/1957 | See Source »

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