Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more revealing forecast on her trousseau came from an authority close to the bride herself. "The princesses," she said, "naturally incline to follow traditional trends. If for any .reason one of them got the idea she'd like a skirt shorter or longer than was considered in the best taste, I am sure the Queen would scotch...
...terror so openly insolent in the U.S. Everything honest and brave is exiled or put in prison. The haberdasher from Jackson vies for the laurels of the little corporal from Munich. . . . Who is this new apostle of imperialism? ... A man who loves bow ties, wears his pants two inches shorter than ordinary, and . . . has no other external marks of distinction. . . ." (After a visit to the U.S. last year, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg had waxed sarcastic over the mysterious interest the U.S. press has in personalities and personal likes: "A reporter [wrote about] the burning problem...
...shorter the skirt the better," was the feeling of shortage-minded Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's Minister of Economic Affairs. But he added quickly that, of course, "there must be some limits...
Delay at Schoenhof's Foreign Book shop was shorter, amounting to no more than ten or fifteen minutes, while second-hand stores were packed with students...
...before in Rome. "Rubi" danced divinely. Dee-Dee danced divinely, too. Rubi was honorary chargé d'affaires of the Dominican Republic, although he was not recognized by the French because he had once been acceptable to the Vichy regime. He was lean, dark, and a few inches shorter than Dee-Dee. He had been married twice before-to Dominican Dictator Trujillo's daughter Flor de Oro, and to Danielle Darrieux, the pert and sexy French film star (Mayerling), who had once been marked for death by the French underground. Around Paris nightclubs, everybody knew eager, ardent Rubi...