Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factors that has contributed to the recession is the effort by dress manufacturers to sell American women on the sack dress. There must be millions of middle-aged women who feel as reluctant to buy this hideous garment...
Looking about as shapeless as any other woman in a high-necked sack dress, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe signed up for her first movie in nearly two years: Some Like It Hot, a comedy tailored specially for the Monroe talents by Old Pro Director Billy (The Seven Year Itch) Wilder...
Adlai Stevenson, addressing a Democratic women's conference, spent a whimsical paragraph on a sure laugh-getter, the sack dress. "The source of the sack is Moscow. It will be Khrushchev's greatest triumph. It spreads discontent, unrest, antagonism and hostility. It isn't even subliminal-its nonlinear." Speaker Stevenson suggested that women use the chemise in a dressed-up version of the gimmick from Aristophanes' Lysistrata, in which Greek women go on a sex strike until husbands give up warring: "Let women say-peace, or the sack...
...past three years, perhaps even longer, the Winthrop House Music Society has played the dramatic field at Harvard cautiously, sticking closely to tired-and-true Gilbert and Sullivan productions. Last night, however, the Victorian wonder boys got the sack as the Winthrop House Music Society staged a successful and entertaining performance of Of Thee I Sing...
Clearly, then, what is needed in Cambridge is something which exploits the cover-all quality of the sack. Let us look to Radcliffe for a modified chemise. We might even get a silk purse...