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...adjustable exercise machine (see cut}. It is adjustable so that Mrs. Garner can also get a work-out sitting down, or lying on her back. "I am handicapped," explained she, "because I can't take off my dress in my office. I just pin up my skirt and shut the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Honolulu (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Further foot noises by Eleanor Powell, this time executed in a hula hula skirt and applauded by Robert Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Isabel Bishop's paintings have the quality of forms remembered, this was a clearer and more solid memory. The black skirt of one girl and the orange jacket of the other were definite and strong notes in the composition. And not only were the figures classically balanced but their lackadaisical, toe-swinging pose was sharply observed and evocative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bishop's Progress | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Oldtimers at the opening of Congress were surprised to see a small brown-haired girl, handsome as a magazine cover, pert in plaid jacket, black skirt and yellow hair-ribbon, chasing down the aisles of the House, talking to distinguished members, having her picture taken, carrying messages. She was Gene Cox, 13, eye-apple youngest daughter of Georgia's cantankerous Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Over the protests of Doorkeeper Joe Sinnott, who feared it would "get into the newspapers" and start a rush by other doting parents to have the same done for their girls, Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goober's Girl | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...witness, a brunette, Senta de Wanger, appeared in a greenish-gray sport jacket, green skirt, green hat. Miss de Wanger runs a liquor store at Hempstead, N. Y., near the Air Corps' Mitchel Field, L. I. She was sought out by absentee William Lonkowski, one of the few who was portrayed as a spy capable of digging out worthwhile information. To him and his wife German-born Senta rented part of her quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Spy Business | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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