Word: stockingless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young president of Sarah Lawrence College (for bluestocking young ladies-usually stockingless) is Harold Taylor, 33. His youth has never stopped him from sounding off to his elders. A month ago, he leveled at the Great Books program for concentrating too much on dead letters. Last week, at New York's twelfth annual Educational Conference, he berated the whole U.S. educational system. Said he: "[It] has become one massive quiz program, with the prizes and the honors going to the most . . . repulsively well-informed persons. The man with his hand up first wins the scholarship, is asked to make...
Other foreign perils were short, knee-length skirts, stockingless legs, and "wonderful shoes with the full bare heels show ing." Said one of Sobolev's characters, a Red Army man, drawing on his experience: "Probably not enough material to finish the shoes." Said his witty comrade: "No, the Rumanians have a tradition of showing their heels in war." "The women," Sobolev conceded, "are handsome in a standardized way, with carefully made-up faces smoothly pale in spite of the burning sun, with hairdos which are a little too artful and with striking dark red pouting lips - the fashion seems...
...York City Health Department will soon investigate reports that athlete's foot is being spread in stores now that more & more women are appearing stockingless to try on shoes. Many shoe dealers are already distressed about the problem, but dare not ask their customers to put on socks before trying on shoes...
...women, who are credited with having the shapeliest legs in the world, last week faced the horrifying knowledge that soon they would have to go silk-stockingless. Raw-silk imports from Japan had ended. 0PM had snatched up all available stocks (see p. 57). There was just no more silk for stockings...
Meanwhile, female workers in a large Derbyshire plant petitioned the directors to let them go stockingless -hitherto considered "not done" in the shires - and promised if this plea was granted to put $5,000 yearly of "stocking money" into national savings. That the Government must use drastic means to keep exports as high as possible was evident from the latest British trade figures released last week. These showed September 1940 exports were valued at ?31,000,000 ($124,000,000) and imports at ?80,000,000 ($320,000,000); whereas the figures for September 1939 were: exports...