Word: primness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a prim group of elderly American women visited his Mexico City salon a few weeks ago, plump Dress Designer Henri Chatillon disappeared into a dressing room, rustled out a few seconds later in a flowing black gown and a big hat. "I shocked hell out of them," he tittered, "but I did have a good time...
Italy, by far the cheapest for travel (a good meal costs only a dollar), was also anxious to please. Though the prim government forbade Italians to wear two-piece bathing suits or abbreviated trunks on the public beaches, Americans were free to wear what they wanted at such international resorts as Portofino, Lido and Capri. This year there would be classical plays for tourist audiences, performed under floodlights in the ruins of Pompeii. Like other Italians, the pickpockets were getting ready for the tourists. Rome newspapers reported last week that they were brushing up their art at special schools, where...
...room. At the tiny and prosperous Windmill Theater near Piccadilly, long a favored hangout of U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines, London's lovelies prove as deciduous as the Minsky variety, but their nudity must stand on its own without bumps or grinds. Perambulant stripping is taboo, and a prim sign in the lobby warns customers that "any additional aid to vision is not permitted." Forbidden the use of opera glasses under this rule, a seagoing burlesque fan recently did his best to provide a substitute. Navigational instruments are usually equipped with telescopes, so the sailor brought along his sextant...
...cherub-cheeked man who is nervously cheerful about his big job of staying ahead of Ford; Buick's Ivan L. Wiles, 50, a tall, greying statistician who moved up from comptroller into Red Curtice's job; Oldsmobile's Sherrod E. Skinner, 52, a dark, heavyset, prim engineer; and Pontiac's Harry J. Klingler, 59, lean, angular and eager, a bow-tied salesman who always has one more funny story up his sleeve when Wilson runs...
...smaller roles, Edna Preston bustles as the perpetual Cockney maid is expected to, and Mary Mace is proper and prim as Sir John's secretary. Maxine Sheppard looks natural in the cynical, sophisticated--and bitchy--role of Lady Fletcher...