Word: sveltest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buttons; a polar-bear parka for $2,000; a pleated shooting culotte with snake-proof boots for huntresses with pretty knees; a silver hair-seal parka with hair-seal skates to match; and to keep warmer still-the chicest, sleekest flask, called Little Nipper, designed to fit on the sveltest hip and never make an unintended bulge. The response was enough to warm even a trout fisherman's clam my boots...
Beyond income, it was the sveltest, splashiest, most scrambled-after social affair that the nation's capital has seen in many years. Ostensibly, it was to celebrate the Washington opening of Mr. President, a sorry, soggy musical by Irving Berlin still on its way to Broadway. In fact, Mr. President was only the intermission in a three-act social extravaganza...
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