Word: primping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draperies and taking test plops onto sofas. In the piano exhibit, eleven-year-old Frances Dean, of Comanche, delighted her schoolmates and amazed exhibitors by sitting down at a new baby grand and expertly rippling through a Paderewski minuet. Many a future farmer headed for the livestock barns to primp animals for the junior steer, hog and sheep shows. Ralph Finke, 13, of Denison, hauled out a can of Johnson's wax and set to work polishing the horns of his Hereford yearling...
They-about 5,000 of them a month -drop in to keep appointments with us, enter subscriptions to our magazines, find out what to see and where to go in New York City. They also come in to browse, snooze, primp, knit, read a good book, rendezvous with friends, or just to get out of the rain. Often enough there isn't a vacant seat left...
Most prominent member of Latitude Zero's cast is the persistently romantic Elaine Barrie, whose ex-husband John Barrymore rehearses for the Vallee show a couple of doors away. Although Elaine is careful to primp herself before leaving the studio, she has never run into John. His agent and her's see to that...