Word: toe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colleges, luncheon clubs, waistlines, and bank accounts got bigger. Madison Avenue, in a Brooks Brothers and button-down salaam to the Little Woman and her big roller pin, committed the ultimate betrayal of privacy every TV evening: the advertising grab-bag of under-arm deodorants, living bras, toilet tissue, toe-nail paint, perfume, mouthwash, and the Potato Sack look. Sex was the province of the Ladies Home Journal. Dr. Spock replaced the Bible. Bohemia in pink panties was more organized nymphomania than Art. Greenwich Village was overrun with mop-headed, turtle-necked, tweed-wrapped, smudge-faced, and beer-reeking femmes...
...fine job of acting, but he does more than act and sing. He kicks a mean one-step, dances the Castle Walk. And in an inspired number that has already made Choreographer Onna White a big name on Broadway, he joins the dancing company in a softshoe, tippy-toe library ballet that is a triumph of precision and gaiety...
...began when Los Angeles station KCOP-TV (Channel 13) brought in a beauty queen to do the Philco commercials in place of Oscar's ailing wife June. Oscar had expected to do the commercials himself, and this "humiliation" shook him from id to toe. He was rude, hustled her off-camera before she could make her sales pitch, was notified within minutes that Philco had canceled sponsorship of the show. In a rage, Oscar launched into an on-the-air assault on Philco, urged his audience not to buy Philco until the company returned to his program...
...became a major factor in the industry, but it gave him the funds to begin major investments in real estate in mid-Depression. One day he heard that Western Union wanted to build on a choice block near the financial district, so he bought a corner building as a toe hold, quietly worked out a deal with Western Union to pick up the rest of the property on percentage. His profit...
Munro seems to be running on a treadmill as far as injuries are concerned. No sooner had defenseman John Baldwin and midfielder Jerry Cotter returned to the lineup than first midfield stalwart Dick Parks suffered a broken toe and spiked shin, and defenseman Lanny Keyes was sidelined with a pulled hamstring muscle...