Word: saris
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...converse a few times, but he is obviously for the United Nations and meant well. He did bring out, however, that there are over 6,000 hand gestures in his native dance, and that two India dancing girls can converse with these without using anything else besides a sari. He also edified the local population by demonstrating how to wrap a turban and how to hit a drum...
Married. George Sanders, 42, cinemactor (The Moon and Sixpence, Forever Amber); and Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, thirtyish, "Miss Hungary" of 1936, former wife of Hotel Magnate Conrad N. Hilton; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...
...once worked on a temporary trial of prohibition in Bombay reported: "The first result of the experiment was a large increase in water consumption. Not because people were quenching their thirst on water. We found it was because people were taking more baths. A woman who had only one sari had not bothered to take a bath; but when her husband could no longer spend his money on toddy he would go out and buy his wife a second sari. She was then encouraged to take baths...
...banished darkness. The divided world unites in the extravagant exchange of buffet-and-cocktail banalities-perhaps the only true international language. Bright Scottish kilts swish past the dull tan of Soviet uniforms; a U.S. admiral's navy blue is lightly brushed by the pastel veils of an Indian sari. Vodka, French wines and odd Eastern European cocktails spill on the oriental rugs from glasses negligently tilted or moved in too hasty gesticulation. There are lavish loads on two great buffet tables: platters of sliced veal and chicken, salads in splendid variety, tidy piles of caviar. In the center...
...Robbed: Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, emerald-eyed, diamond-bright Miss Hungary of 1936, estranged wife of Hotelman Conrad Hilton (New York's Plaza, Los Angeles' Town House, Chicago's Palmer House); in the mirrored boudoir of her Manhattan penthouse. Jewel-&-fur-bearing Mrs. Hilton (who once told tabloid reporters that unidentified villains had kept her in "continuous slumber" for six months with mysterious drugs) now reported to police that a tall stranger in a grey suit, fedora, pigskin gloves and dark glasses had tied her and her maid to a love seat and made off with...