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...with flowers and Belle-Sharmer has stockings that fasten with snaps. Best solution slim girls have found is pantyhose, sheer tights that do away with girdle and garter (sales have already increased 20%), but even they are far from ideal-bag at the ankle when left loose, rip if they are pulled tight. As one young modern put it: "Let's face it; the only thing that really works is bare legs...
They just rip them off, even if they are nailed down...
...odds, it was the most flaccid filibuster in memory. There was no reading of recipes or telephone books, none of the oldtime Bible-spouting, rip-snorting oratory. Dirksen and his filibuster co-captain, North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, had assigned each of their 27 teammates to a group and a captain; each was prepared to carry on night and day if pushed. But nobody was pushing. Majority Leader Mansfield refused to hold marathon sessions, saw to it that the Senate always recessed in time for dinner, and once even in time for lunch-all of which moved Oregon...
Epic Feuds. For the customer who failed to appreciate his fare, Soule reserved an icy stare. To the diner who bickered over the check he delivered his ultimate gesture of contempt: puffing himself up to his full height (5 ft. 5 in.), he would rip up the check and say, "Good night. You have been guests of Le Pavilion...
...application in a boy's hand, but when he got home his father would rip it up and tell him he'd had a nightmare," explains Fred L. Glimp '50, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids...