Word: skirtings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gasped; I had fun. One afternoon a woman was telling several of us about the miserable condition of her health. Suddenly I asked her: 'Have you ever tried standing on your head? ... It acts like a charm.' I borrowed a safety pin, fastened the hem of my skirt between my knees, put a cushion on the floor, shot my legs into the air, remained poised for a moment. Said I: 'There, you try that every day, and you won't have lumbago or heart trouble.' . . . And only a fortnight ago, I read in the papers...
...promised land and handing down commandments nibbled upon a pebble. Or an Alexander, weeping mousily when there were no more ranches to conquer. Or some evidence that it had rained mice, or that the rodents were from Mars, or?since a mouse running from beneath a woman's skirt used to be regarded as a symbol of unchastity?that the mouse army was a portentous sign of the times...
...International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit & Skirt Manufacturers Inc. signed a 36-clause agreement which binds the employes to give full work for their pay and the employers to have no business relation with non-union shops...
...Story.* On a December night in 1906, a ferocious storm swept across Glebeshire. In its cathedral town of Polchester (by the river, by the sea) in her old, old house in Canon's Yard, sat Mrs. Penethen, respected, kindly widow. She sat by her kitchen fire, her skirt drawn up to her knees, her toes resting on a woolworked cushion. She was to admit to her home that night, against her will and yet somehow with all her heart, a vast foreigner: a simple Swede, a blond HerculesApollo, whose strangely formal card contained the words: Hjalmar Johanson, Gymnastic Instructor...
...conducted in any convenient place-at a well or "on the bank of a stream where the carabao dream" and so far as adult females are concerned there is no undue exposure of the person. When the bather arrives at the place of the bath she loosens her saya (skirt) which is tied round her waist and lifts it to cover her bosom. She then removes her floppy camisa (waist) and camison (chemise) if she wears the latter garment, kicks aside her chinelas (slippers) and goes...