Word: skirting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Messrs. Fisher and Ley did not intend to break the New York law which forbids a corporation to practice medicine. William Howard Taft, a great lawyer just out of the White House, became a director of the Life Extension Institute and told his colleagues just how closely they could skirt the fence of Medicine. The American Medical Association made no noteworthy objections...
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...
...Fields picture is a good one. This musical film also contains Crooner Bing Crosby, who with bland face and bland voice has recently impersonated such characters as a sailor, a Princeton student, a crooner. Together, Fields and Crosby add certain novel elements to Mississippi's "you-all," hoop skirt & julep plot as taken from a Booth Tarkington play...