Word: trousseau
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...Hollywood, while Cafe Sportsman Henry J. ("Bob") Topping waited for wife Arline Judge to get her divorce, Lama Turner was busy buying her $30,000 trousseau. For this, her fourth wedding,* she would wear a princess-style gown in beige lace over champagne satin. The lingerie-some $5,000 worth-would include a dozen nightgowns, half of them fingertip length, in flowered chiffon...
...more revealing forecast on her trousseau came from an authority close to the bride herself. "The princesses," she said, "naturally incline to follow traditional trends. If for any .reason one of them got the idea she'd like a skirt shorter or longer than was considered in the best taste, I am sure the Queen would scotch...
Cinemactress Marie McDonald, whose much-publicized contours have made her better known as "The Body," was out a trousseau. (She was shortly going to marry for the second time.) It went up prematurely in flames, in a fire at her ranch...
Princess Elizabeth, whose country house burned and who would have no trousseau, had nice news for a change. Nanking sent a Foreign Office man into Kiangsi province to watch over the production of a good Chinese porcelain service...
...news-gathering and news-writing: Readers overseas write us in their native languages asking us to do all sorts of things for them-to find a long-lost brother in Wisconsin, to get an interview with President Truman, to tell them how to buy a Fifth Avenue trousseau for a daughter bride-to-be. Two girls in our Letters Department spend most of their time just translating and trying to follow through on such requests...