Word: skirtings
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...closely woven fabrics to hold shape; with fly front to camouflage breadth through middle); How to Wear Them (with simple jewelry, low-heeled shoes, and unself-consciously); then destructively summed up: "Slacks look wonderfully well when they're right, incredibly bad when they're wrong. . . . A skirt is never wrong...
Though there are about 50 to 100 show-girl "hostesses" a night, there are also an increasing number of "senior hostesses" (older actresses like Antoinette Perry and Constance Collier), because the Canteen has found that lots of the kids are skirt-shy, only feel at home with substitutes for Mother. For all hostesses there are two ironclad rules: They must be members of the entertainment professions (or the daughter or wife of a member), and they may not leave the place with a service...
Last month, tired of solo performances, Ruth McGinnis accepted an invitation to compete for the New York State pocket billiards championship. First woman ever to challenge men in a major billiards tournament, she proved no discredit to her sex. As the tournament entered its homestretch last week, "the skirt" had won four matches, lost five. "I wish I could throw my leg over the table the way men do," said diminutive Miss McGinnis...
...live in a mansion opposite Rangoon's City Hall, have two sons and a daughter. Lady Paw Tun runs a kindergarten for Europeans and Burmese. Premier Paw Tun, who is expected to accommodate the British better than Axis-inclined Premier Saw, still wears a silk headpiece and skirt, Burmese-style, but is so westernized that he eats with a knife and fork rather than his fingers...
When the grinning, skirt-clad Premier arrived in London last fall, he had one thought in mind: to pry a promise of dominion status for Burma out of the British Government. But he got small change out of Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for India & for Burma Leopold Amery, and the rest of British officialdom. Churchill, said U Saw, was "very blunt," adding that he himself had been very blunt in return. As the ultra-nationalist Premier left Britain for Burma, via the U.S., he remarked Delphically that the Japanese were very clever people and that "we would rather trust...