Word: sheathing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World, "the U.S. was never closer to a social revolution than at the time Roosevelt became President." Around T.R. in his last year in the White House, their productivity racing ahead of population, surged 88 million Americans, men in derbies in the new Model Ts, women in the new sheath gowns and Merry Widow hats, teen-agers shouting Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay and Take Me Out to the Ball Game and taking in George M. Cohan in The Yankee Prince...
...major trend is back to fur collars on coats and suits, long out of style. A miss who is so minded can even breakfast in a fur-trimmed housecoat, go out for cocktails in a fur-banded sheath, slip into a fur-topped evening dress, and the last thing at night clean her teeth with a fur-trimmed toothbrush and climb into her fur-trimmed pajamas. Furriers also are busily promoting complete fur costumes. Notable this season: a black Russian broadtail skirt and matching jacket worn by Zsa Zsa Gabor and a broadtail curve-hugging evening dress with a swallowtail...
...Black Sheath. Now in its second year as a local show, plain-speaking Confession not only keeps its viewers goggling at its "crusade against crime" but manages so responsible a grip on its sensational material that it has won the help and plaudits of Dallas churchmen and law-enforcement officials. Questioner Wyatt, 40, who originated and produces the show, is a onetime disk jockey, radio writer and veteran of Madison Avenue ad agencies who fled to Texas 3½ years ago, and spends most of his time running a Dallas ad business. Says he: "This may sound corny...
...most of Wyatt's guests, Transvestite Kahler was supplied by the police, who had arrested him as a drunken woman being molested by three men, and did not discover his sex until they got him to the station house. Obligingly, the police let Kahler get into a black sheath cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of the sidewalk arrest. Wyatt used the film, along with footage of the begowned Kahler doing a few dance steps. Then for an "insight into this age-old, worldwide psychological problem," the live camera turned to Kahler, seated in a jail uniform before...
...Paris. Peggy Guggenheim, member of the wealthy copper clan, had a conventional Manhattan upbringing before she married into the lost generation. With her dilettante first husband Author Laurence Vail, she gave some of Paris' wildest parties, posed for Photographer Man Ray in a cloth-of-gold, fringed sheath, balancing a foot-long cigarette holder. Her yen for art and artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum's purchase...