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Word: sweaters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell her about fighting the battle of China or India and she'll say, 'Yes, yes, angel, but have you heard of our new union - the Amalgamated Order of War-Working Sweater Girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Advice to the Homesick | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...crash the gate to money and glamor. On her silly trail throughout is her soda-fountain boss, Robert Young, with whom she finally clinches in a motel bedroom. The dialogue of this scene is laundered white for all possible audiences. But Lana, in a costume change from her conventional sweater, still manages to undo all attempts at censorship by her adroit management of an old-fashioned camisole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 19, 1943 | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Jimmy McHugh songs, a ribald number (Fuddy-Duddy Watchmaker) by Betty Hutton, some neat hip-swinging by Miss Martin and some homespunish philosophy by Comic Eddie Bracken (sample: "You only get out of a sweater what you put into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Musicals | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...Freshman aspirant wears white ducks, white sneakers and a white sweat shirt, with his name stenciled on the back, a la West Point. By the time he is a Sophomore, our little friend is still white-ducked and white sneakered, but he has a black sweater to protect him from the often icy blasts of Soldiers Field. Since people generally know you when you're a Sophomore manager, the name tape is unnecessary. In fact, "hey, you!" is a term applied far more often to what were once known as Yardlings, stencil or no stencil, than it is to anonymous...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Passing the Buck | 3/24/1943 | See Source »

Variety called them the Lady (Kay Francis), the Sweater Girl (Carole Landis), the Hoofer (Mitzi Mayfair) and the Hoyden (Martha Raye). They got together last fall as a pickup team, only slightly acquainted with each other, for a tour of fighting fronts. Last week their "captain," Miss Francis, was home with the liveliest trouper's tale of the war. The four actresses had traveled 37,500 miles, had left the memory of their perfume in camps on three continents, won the praise of General Dwight Eisenhower and established themselves as sweethearts of the A.E.F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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