Word: spider
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact that Truman has made Key West his vacationland is now the town's biggest asset. Because of the Truman boom, air-conditioned motels are blooming like red spider lilies in October, new stores are opening, restaurants are crowded, the sidewalks are flowing with women in shorts and halters and men in atom-flash sport shirts. Harry Truman promptly got into the gay spirit, appeared for a press conference wearing soft blue wash slacks, white shoes and a white tail-out shirt decorated with bright blue sea gulls...
...prizes are available for this sort of work, he deserves one. They are magnificent. Probably the most imaginative number is one worn by Jan Farrand, the Fairy Queen, who enters with an enormous train. This train she later converts into her home for the night, much as a spider who spins...
...Fath offered maternity-like tent coats ("the green cone"); Balenciaga suits had elbow cuffs like parachutes. One Schiaparelli model looked like an oldtime Bloomer Girl (see cut) in an evening gown consisting of a short halter and harem-type underskirt. By comparison, conservative Hattie Carnegie's trim, attractive "spider web" evening gown looked just the thing most U.S. males would like to see their wives...
McInnis may start lefty Rufus "Spider" Webb for the first time this spring against the Huskies. If Webb does not start, the mound assignment will go to John Donelan, in order to save Bob Ward for this weekend's encounter at Cornell...
William J. Fulton, publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick's New York correspondent who "investigated Harvard" earlier this spring, noted with alarm that the college in the "green, pine-dotted hill" was flying the United Nations flag "with its spider web map of the world on a blue background...