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Word: shapeliest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Example. In Hatfield Peverel, England, the Rev. Brian Mahood judged a women's ankle-beauty contest, then took off his socks and won the prize for the shapeliest male ankles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 13, 1948 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Through the Manhattan office doors that hide some of the shapeliest forms in the U.S. last week scurried a Columbia psychologist, eager to test the brain power of Harry Conover's cover girls. It was a heady experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Handsome Does | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Though given every consideration, Eustace would not improve. Finally a farm boy who wore the Distinguished Flying Cross thought he had solved Eustace's problem. Another expedition to Gambut returned with Clarabelle, the shapeliest hen in town. Eustace crowed his pleasure. The R.A.F. courteously left Eustace and Clarabelle alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Passion In the Desert | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...then-some includes the shapeliest girls, the scantiest clothes available. These, together with plenty of steam-room antics and off-color dialogue, turn Hopwood's tale of a professor (Buddy Ebsen) who is completely unnerved at the sight of exposed female flesh into the likes of a burlesque show. Good Night Ladies, as Chicago Tribune Critic Cecil Smith put it, satisfied "every taste except good taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Up From Avery | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...women, who are credited with having the shapeliest legs in the world, last week faced the horrifying knowledge that soon they would have to go silk-stockingless. Raw-silk imports from Japan had ended. 0PM had snatched up all available stocks (see p. 57). There was just no more silk for stockings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Leg Panic | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

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