Word: skirtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readers of the tabloid Daily News next morning-or the smart minority that could read headlines-the head meant that the cops had caught an armed burglar wearing two pairs of pants and a skirt as well. Last week it was pinned on a bulletin board, and Copyreader Harry Mott got an extra $20 in his pay envelope for writing the headline of the week...
...quite finished off"). Princeton's drink is the Sea Breeze (which also begins with gin, then gets out of hand). At Yale, a girl can get away with "two suits and two dressy dresses"; at Cornell, she should have a fall suit, a cocktail dress, a sweater & skirt, an evening dress, walking shoes, dancing shoes, an evening wrap and a warm coat...
Indeed, the grosser the gore, the higher the moral standards. One sketch, showing a sprawling lady with her dripping throat slit from ear to ear, was indignantly rejected because her skirt was rucked up above one knee. And, from the start, profanity was simply not tolerated. When the eaters of Sweeney Todd's delicious pies were told that their mouths were full of human flesh, they delicately exclaimed: "Good gracious! . . . Confound...
...what the students are up to. I don't dictate, and I don't make them work too much from the model. The important thing is memory; I harp on that. For instance, coming across the campus this afternoon I saw a girl with her skirt blown back against her thighs. Now you can be inspired by a lovely glimpse like that, but never by copying. Right...
...vote favored more conservative colors and styles with the exception of a red faille bolero and skirt Dior original in the cocktail dresses division. Modeling the winning combinations were Mary Frances Blakeslee '52; Susan Kunstadter, Sargent; Joan Wilson, Sargent; Peggy Crawford, Simmons; Jane Hauser, Boston University; and Joyce Dana, Tufts...