Word: skirtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were a violet sweater, ruby red lipstick, and gray flannel skirt, proving her Harvard fidelity. "I have trouble with my hose," she said, "but my mother didn't send any razor blades...
...bridal suite ($25 a day U.S.), and the airport customs inspector gave me a quick frisk-for guns or opium, no doubt. At Rangoon, where we landed in monsoon weather, I was met at the airport by a little brown man wearing a red skirt and sandals who politely informed me that the Government guest house awaited us. That was news to me-until I found out that he was looking for a United Nations man named Green. The Chinese airline attendants, having no Mr. Green aboard, gave him a Gray instead...
Little Rats. The world's oldest ballet company had come a long way from the days of Voltaire's Camargo, who was the first dancer to shorten her skirts, and Marie Sallé, who, in 1734, shocked a London correspondent into reporting that "she has dared to appear . . . without pannier, skirt or bodice . . . Apart from her corset and petticoat, she wore only a simple dress of muslin draped about her in the manner of a Greek statue...
...showing off the snapshots they sometimes leave with her. "Now this," she will remark, "was a very nice family from Ohio . . . This poor girl lost her kitty just before she came .. . This was a woman all the way from Australia. She brought me a kangaroo skin and a hula skirt...
...Exposures. By next morning the story was on front pages all over the country. The New York Times wrapped it up in nine lively columns, including an eyewitness account by its Johnny-on-the-spot photographer, Fred Sass-but not including any of his pictures. An editor explained: "Her skirt was way up over her legs, and the Times doesn't print pictures like that." Everybody else...