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...moment when he gazes apprehensively at a gibbet being erected in his honor and murmurs queasily, "Slumber lumber," Hope makes it clear that his gallantry is mighty small-caliber. When his beautiful co-captive (Virginia Mayo) on the pirate ship snatches away the protection of her wide skirt and asks him in the thick of battle. "Are you man or mouse?" Hope turns to the nearest mouse and asks, "Where's Mama...
...April 1943 Mrs. Howard Hawks, leafing through the Bazaar, caught on her face the way a skirt catches on barbed wire. She showed it to her husband ; Producer Howard Hawks was caught...
Friedel Souvignier, who is in her middle 40s, sported a blue turban. Blond, 18-year-old Marianne Souvignier's plump legs were bare. Pretty Inger Schoneneberg, 20, wore a black hat on her black hair and a plaid sports skirt. The four trooped nervously into a restaurant on Kornelimun-ster's town square...
...most remarkable cyclist yet seen was a girl wearing a platinum fox short jacket, a huge washtub felt hat and accordion-pleated skirt, who somehow managed to make the bicycle look part of the ensemble. But shopgirls in printed frocks, bright sweaters, and the tricolor in their hair, as well as elegant women, make the G.I.s realize how much they have been missing in unimaginatively dressed Britain and the damp fields of Normandy...
...Southwest Pacific, U.S. Seabees, who boast that they can repair anything from a watch to a battleship, turned to another activity in their spare time. A Navy officer reported they were making grass skirts and selling them to the natives. Reason for the market: the Seabees' skirt is better than the native product...