Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...centuries, Britain's poets have sung of Oxford's "dreaming spires"; but they have done some worrying about them, too. Shops and factories have been creeping in upon the spires like jungle weed-"a base and brickish skirt," cried Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1879, that "sours that neighbor-nature thy grey beauty is grounded best in . . ." Last week the base and brickish skirt was creating a bitterer furor than ever. The center of the storm: the Oxford and District...
Last week, a plump grandmother of 67, Emma Bellows was not upset at the thought of parting with her last important portrait, but she was still puzzling over one thing. "I know that dress by heart. I made the jacket myself. The skirt was rose-colored, the jacket blue. I don't know why he called it Emma in a Purple Dress...
...herself in her first movie, They Won't Forget. She was cast as a sweatered Southern belle who drifted through one speechless scene. "A Thing," Lana recalls, "walked slowly down the street, then away. She wore a tight sweater and her breasts bounced as she walked ... a tight skirt and her buttocks bounced . . . She moved sinuously, undulating fore and aft . . . She was the motive for the entire picture . . . the girl who got raped...
American young women are, in many ways, the generation's most serious problem: they are emotional D.P.s. The granddaughters of the suffragettes, the daughters of the cigarette-and-short-skirt crusaders, they were raised to believe in woman's emancipation, and equality with man. Large numbers of them feel that a home and children alone would be a fate worse than death, and they invade the big cities in search of a career. They ride crowded subways on which men, enjoying equality, do not offer them seats. They compete with men in industry and the arts; and keep...
Roberta bought a $235 Christian Dior suit of purple faille, Marilyn a $100 strapless aqua cocktail dress with a rhinestone-trimmed jacket, and Eileen a lavender, gold-embroidered blouse and a black velvet skirt. The girls bought $50 blouses. They bought expensive shoes. They bought gloves. They bought piles of lingerie. They bought stockings. They went to a beauty parlor and Roberta became a blonde and Marilyn a redhead. They hurried to the hotel, decked themselves in their finery, and went to the Latin Quarter, a big, gaudily-decorated Broadway nightclub...