Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demonstrated in Manhattan last week by the American Women's Voluntary Services. The necessary materials can be found in almost any house: a bathing cap, a small tin can, the transparent cover from a powder-puff box, a bit of wire net (from fly swatters), two handkerchiefs, elastic ribbon, adhesive tape, and (from the drugstore) a few ounces of activated coconut charcoal and soda lime. The principle behind the homemade mask is simple; the assembly is more difficult. The rubber cap is fitted snugly over the face and two holes are cut in it; one for the powder-puff...
...planted twice the past year's acreage. Settling up in the fall, Otis skinned the Negro so unmercifully that he drew a knife. Otis Town smashed in his skull with a singletree. Then he went to the cabin with a jar of vaseline and a piece of red ribbon, which he gave to the woman. Next winter, Mammy bore him a son and called...
...dictated it to a battery of secretaries, revised and corrected it in his laborious, Victorian longhand. Now, sitting at his desk before twelve microphones, he carefully took his hornrimmed pince-nez from the breast pocket of his grey suit, carefully shook out the anchoring length of black ribbon, carefully spoke to the world about World...
Philip Barry really had something in "Philadelphia Story." Eliot Nugent made a Broadway hit out of "Male Animal." Katherine Hepburn knocked her second home run in a row when she put "Woman of the Year" on celluloid. The combination should have been a sure-fire-blue-ribbon-on-the-nose-double-or-quits royal straight flush. But somehow two and two doesn't seem to make four in the theatre world. It makes a small fraction of one, called "Without Love...
Franklin Roosevelt was in fine fettle. It was St. Patrick's Day: he wore a greenish tweed suit, a green tie, a green ribbon in his lapel; on his desk stood a vase of green carnations, a pot of shamrock. He was pleased at having a big cat to let out of the bag-General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork...