Word: sixteener
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...Counihan is still convinced her real talent lies in art.) She has well in mind, before she starts, what each star can wear: "Bergman is something so beautiful you must play it down. You cannot overpower Ingrid with clothes." "Make Fontaine smart, feminine and refined." "Keep Shirley looking sweet sixteen with soft hair, pigtails and girlish pinafores...
...blithely guessed it would take him three years, and when a friend pointed out that 40 French Academicians had labored 40 years to write a French dictionary, Johnson boomed: "Sir, forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three is to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." The Dictionary took nine years, and was such a success that the Government rewarded him with a pension of £300 a year...
...body of the shirt. Then various solutions of chemicals are sprayed indiscriminately over the shirt until various discolorations and bleachings appear. Then the shirts are ready for pressing. This is the novel operation of the system. The shirts for the Mid-Off school are placed all on a table. Sixteen of the largest women in nearby Brighton then sit upon the shirts until they are pressed into the fine smooth job which you all know so well. Then just before the shirts leave the plant some female flend etches on the collars of all the shirts--on the outside...
...fact: the last vestiges of normal life were about to disappear. Theaters, cinemas, cabarets and concert halls, where men & women could forget a while, would be closed. The twelve-hour workday would become standard. The age limit for women required in industry would be raised from 45 to 50. Sixteen-year-old boys would be sent to the front after 60 days of training. Doctors were advised to be chary in issuing certificates of labor exemption for health reasons...
...Sixteen million of the 30 million nonvoters lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line-18% of them whites who could afford to pay the poll...