Word: skirtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holding a bouquet to ward off unknowing handshakers, was discussing the impracticality of the President's House, as a home. "It was built by President Lowell whose idea of something grand was that spiral staircase over there. It's fine for allowing ladies to sweep down in a full skirt and a train, but it seems as if the staircase came first and the house as an after-thought." Someone asked her if she had occasion to sweep down with a train much, and she laughed and said not much. "Of course, this place is practical when you are entertaining...
...important to have a well-coordinated team as a great star. To put on the great "white ballets"-the classics that England's Royal Opera House company has made its specialty-it had to have both. Says U.S. Choreographer George Balanchine: "When you dance in a short skirt, a tutu, you have to be very well trained, very precise. It's like a coloratura singing Mozart; she has to sing every note. In classical ballet, legs are coloratura...
...that art was more important than a good living; he lit out for Paris. Soon he was painting competent, easy-to-take hybrids of Sargent and Whistler, and with them winning prizes and acclaim. With An Arrangement, a low-keyed study of a girl in shirtwaist and skirt kneeling on an oriental carpet, he pulled down the fattest plum the U.S. had to offer an artist, $1,500 and a gold medal for the best painting in the 1901 Carnegie International. Collectors began buying his conventional canvases, museums began displaying them...
Sharp Focus. In Fort Worth, police received a routine letter from Twin Falls, Idaho authorities inquiring about a suspected bad-check passer and describing her as "25, 115 Ibs., 5 ft. 5 in. She wore a low-cut dress with short skirt, making it very hard to gain a description of her facial features...
...World. In Blackpool, England, Violet Brindle protested that, in an effort to make her quit her job as a streetcar conductor, her husband had 1) blocked her trolley line by haranguing a crowd about his troubles, 2) burned the skirt of her conductor's uniform, 3) burned the supper peas...