Word: stilettoes
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During the next five weeks, their dark almond eyes will beam on a group of lecturers from business schools in the Boston area, and their stiletto-like fingernails will flick through books on such subjects as real estate management, production cost analysis and product marketing. Then they will visit major U.S. industrial firms, dropping in on General Mills or IBM or Mobil Oil to get a firsthand look at how their male counterparts in the U.S. turn a profit...
Inside are 10,000 followers of Mammon: unworking men, grandpas, stiletto-heeled tooties, indescribables, a sprinkling of M.I.T. professors. They mill around the closed-circuit TVs. The long rows of betting windows, the hot dog and beer stands. They spill out to the open-air section by the track, concentrating most heavily by the finish wire. They wander back and forth eating popcorn, clutching the long "green"--scarecrows stuffed with money instead of straw...
...chap in cloak and whiskers knifes his sister's suitor. The suitor was unwell anyway: a rival spitor gouged him in a duel before the brother came in with a stiletto. Both duelists officially die, secretly recover. Meanwhile the brother begs his sister to pretend she is going to have a child by the richer dead suitor. She pretends she is going to have one by the poorer one. The mother tries to turn her heretofore legitimate son into a bastard because he destroyed the prospective son-in-law who was her prospective lover. A pregnant nun appears...
...significance of Detroit's own safety measures is that they were not taken until public attention was focused on the problem. Car designers has complained that safety would not sell while stiletto tail fins would. Only when the uproar over automobile fatalities reached a crescendo did the industry realize that style would no longer sell without safety...
Oozing unctuous concern for the plight of dateless girls, a group of Princeton men last fall published Where the Girls Are, a guide to the delights of dating at Eastern women's colleges. Last week, for their pains, they got back a stiletto of witticism called Where the Boys Are, researched by girls at Smith and Mount Holyoke and written by two male turncoats at Amherst...