Word: skirtful
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...ladies of the local country club played a strip golf tournament, one garment for each hole. Unlucky Mrs. Ralph Bilyeu left the course first, reduced to a shoe and a piece of lingerie. Mrs. J. Werle who stepped to the first tee wearing six petticoats, pantaloons and a hoop skirt, won with the loss of only three petticoats...
...Dalles, Ore. American Legion State Convention, when Legionaries put on a burlesque hula-hula dance in costume, a bystander playfully poked a lighted match into Legionary Olaf Nelson's grass skirt. The skirt blazed briskly. Olaf Nelson ran screaming from the platform, died...
...Crawford entered, flipped up her skirt and petticoats, stretched out on the table. Two of Dr. McDowell's surgical assistants strapped her to the table, lest her painful writhings inconvenience the surgeon. (A generation was to pass before the coming of modern anesthetics.) Dr. McDowell's nephew William assisted by holding Mrs. Crawford's hands.* One of the doctors held her feet...
Died. Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucy Sutherland) 71. famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile Ltd. (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt, first manikin show, first application of the word chic to clothes. A poor businesswoman, she once told a recorder in bankruptcy that she did not know what a share of stock...
Taking courage, she began, with the sober relish of childhood, to empty her raised skirt of rich, crumbling cake. Then she paused, frowning uneasily. Should she have stolen...