Word: strapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more parents were in the habit of taking their offspring over their knee and applying a generous dose of strap oil, we'd all be better," wrote Mrs. T. Scholz. "My three teen-age girls have felt the beneficial sting since way back...
...murmur rippled through the tense crowd as the traitor reached the scaffold. The sentence was read again. The executioners lifted him by a leather strap under his armpits into the crowd's full view. They slipped the noose around his neck. Suddenly, in guttural German, Pfitzner half-shouted, half-croaked...
...generals admired the belts, tried them on for size. Snorted a two-star general: "Hell of a thing or the field-a sniper could pick out the buckle at 1,000 yards." A brigadier general gloomed: "No good as a shaving strap either-all that stitching." Having received no instructions on what to use the belts for, the generals concluded that somebody in Washington was designing a wardrobe for the march down the Wilhelmstrasse. The belts were tossed in bottom drawers...
...most of the chichi left in shoes is in ersatz materials-a red fabric rose or composition cherries at the toe of a plain leather pump, multicolored raffia beach sandals, bright wooden clogs, etc. The only frivolous style note in 1944 women's shoes is the high ankle strap (see cut, p. 82). The real style is the "classic" day shoe that can go anywhere and keep going...
Once in a while the long arm of the law reached out to hold up a slipping brassiere strap and occasionally competition has threatened the leadership of the Old Howard, but never did its loyal following of beardless youth and balded following of beardless youth and balded age fall away as did the Millerites. Here, with a bottle of Scotch and large eigars, fresh-from-prep-school Yardlings matched their manliness against each other. Crimson CRIMSON candidates pushed into backstage interviews. Roverent Yale men dropped in on their pilgrimages to the nearby Waldorf where a plaque marks the birthplace...