Word: sunbonneted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helmet of God." ¶ On the nearby site of the former Reichstag, Berliners will also have a new Congress Hall, mainly financed by U.S. government funds. Designed by Cambridge (Mass.) Architect Hugh Stubbins, it will have seven conference halls, theater and 1,200-capacity auditorium. Outstanding feature: a flaring sunbonnet roof moored by long steel cables...
...salesgirls (a top one can earn as much as $25,000 a year), teaches them the fine points of low-pressure selling. They also learn to treat all customers alike, never knowing which unlikely looking shopper may prove to be the biggest spender. Once a girl in a sunbonnet and cotton dress came into Neiman's for a complete outfitting on her first visit to Dallas. In a few hours, she spent $10,000 of her father's new oil wealth. The last thing Neiman's sold her was a pair of shoes for her bare feet...
...photograph and erupted with rage. "Fat and naked," cried the Salem Capital Journal. Mayor Al Loucks's phone was busy ten hours a day with protests. "What we want," said one member of the Lions, "is a statue of a pioneer woman in a gingham dress and a sunbonnet . . not this trash." Said Oswald West, 80, a former governor of Oregon: "The pioneer mothers would rise up out of their graves and pin a horse blanket around the hussy." "The pioneers," snapped Frank Jenkins, editor of the Klamath Falls Herald & News, "liked 'em slimmer...