Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stylish Stout. In San Gabriel, Calif., police wondered why 230-lb. Alberta Patoux always seemed either fatter or thinner, arrested her inside a store, found 13 cartons of stolen cigarettes stowed in her tent-size bloomers...
...where production was cut by two-thirds, there was sometimes not even a fourth for bridge in the steam room. At mighty Metro, where production was halved, a whole wing was closed in the Thalberg (executive) building. Beverly Hills began to look like an abandoned anthill. All through the stylish canyons, For Sale signs sprouted. Hedy Lamarr set a fashion in elegant liquidation when she turned over her whole house to the auctioneer in June 1951. Everything went, including a wedding band inscribed in German ("You are my only love") and an evening gown with built-in, foam-rubber falsies...
...International Film Festival in Cannes, France, the order was "evening dress." The one exception made: Artist Pablo Picasso, who came in a brown velvet jacket with a fleece-lined leather lumber-jacket draped over his shoulder. Among the crowd, photographers caught the sometime rebel Boy Wonder Orson Welles, in stylish-stout conformity, dancing ogle-eyed with Cinemactress Anne Baxter...
...Madame Paulina Molotov (her revolutionary name is Zhemchuzhina, meaning a pearl) is an olive-skinned Jewess, who looks a little like the Duchess of Windsor. She was born in the Ukraine, "the poorest of the poor," but as the Premier's wife,* was soon gaily commuting from a stylish glass-and-steel dacha on the Moscow River. When Stalin issued his famous Diktat-Let us be gay, Comrades-the Pearl was appointed boss of the Soviet Perfume and Cosmetics Trust. "My husband works on their souls, I on their faces," she said...
...example. A few weeks ago, we noticed in the window of one of our most stylish Cambridge haberdashers, a four-button jacket. Four buttons! All the other usual equipment, naturally--tweed, British vents, spare shoulders, pocket flaps--but four buttons! After a while, the jacket disappeared from the window, and we breathed a sigh of relief, still clinging to our recently threatened three-buttoned job. But when, scarcely a week ago, we noticed the self-same jacket draped--or rather, compressed--around the shoulders of a friend of ours, our anxiety was trebly renewed...