Word: topless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place to visit, but they sure wouldn't want to live there. The daily Vechernyaya Moskva took a long look at Manhattan's skyline and found it little more than "an accumulation of flat surfaces, a chaotic mass of styles, like monstrous stalagmites . . ." Furthermore, Manhattan's topless towers are dangerous and uncomfortable. On windy days, "lamps swing and water splashes . . . The inhabitants of the Empire State Building can hardly experience great pleasure when the tremendous building swings with the wind and one can clearly hear various noises, squeaking and cracking...
Opposite Manhattan's topless towers, on Hoboken's Fifth Street Pier, the tightly phalanxed crowd was as agitated as an Agnes de Mille ballet, and every bit as chic. Before backdrops of exquisite luggage moved exquisite figures-Katharine Hepburn the actress, the Marquis and Marquise de Cuevas of the international set, and "Mile. Ciné-Revue," the Belgian beauty queen (not to mention a sprinkling of ambassadors and two Marshall Plan emissaries). Also present were Mr. Hamish MacGregor, Mr. S. Wodowski, Mrs. A. Haggerty. Many passengers received, instead of steamer baskets, food parcels for their friends...
...ideas. Once a year he assembled hotel men and other friends for a gourmet's dinner of California wines, lettuce from irrigated Arizona gardens, and sole flown from the English channel. The Waldorf became an international institution. Princes, ambassadors and Elsa Maxwell filled the suites in its socially topless Towers...
...Others: for divorce-law reform (he wrote Holy Deadlock); for topless bathing suits (men's); in defense of the King's English against fancy talk (''supplementary servings without charge" should read "free second helpings...
While wealthy, much-married Mrs. Margaret Emerson, mother of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, was at the Saratoga races, fire broke out in her 24-room mansion at Sands Point, L.I., reduced it to a topless shell. Saved: some family portraits, a few other art works, a set of ebony chairs...