Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven other amendments were voted down. One offered by Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy to put quotas on Russian furs was defeated only after a tie vote was broken by Alben Barkley, exercising the Vice President's prerogative for the first time. Then the Senate approved the bill itself, extending the reciprocal trade program for two years by a thumping 62 votes...
...World War I, the rush to put women in ads was on. Coca-Cola used a black-haired beauty and a kitten. Holeproof Hosiery pioneered cheesecake by lifting skirts and showing legs. Chesterfield made shocking history by subtly inciting women to smoke: a flapper cuddled up to her smoke-puffing boy friend and whispered, "Blow some...
...like the same girl in two pictures. Says she: "The photographer says, 'Look sexy,' and I look sexy. He says, 'Look like a kitten,' and I look like a kitten. It is always the dress, it is never, never the girl." As one satisfied customer put it: "A lot of models will not move a muscle for a cheap dress. Lisa makes a $10 cotton dress look like a Schiaparelli." Mockingly, Lisa Fonssagrives puts it another way: "I'm just a good clothes hanger...
...life, for more and better things (constantly stimulated by advertising), that created the demand for-and sold-the goods which made American men & women better housed, better clothed, better groomed and better-looking than any on earth. American business civilization-leaving aside the poets and the painters-has not put its cult of beauty and its belief in progress into formal philosophies. Yet in a sense, it is writing a statement to posterity into the glossy pages and towering lights of its advertising...
...Seeds of Contemplation) have reached bestseller lists. Seven Storey, with its drama of Merton's inner conflict, conversion and renunciation, has sold more than 270,000 copies and is still selling. It is not likely that Waters of Siloe will hit any such figure, but Merton has put together a brief, lively history of an order that U.S. readers seem curious to hear about...