Word: trousseaux
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...ANNUAL AND UNFAILingly upbeat report on the American horn of plenty. All this stuff for sale, more in heaven and earth than was dreamt of in even the maddest consumer's philosophy: buggy whips and barbering aids, covered wagons and canaries, tires and trousseaux, countless doodads that seemed unnecessary until they popped up on the page. From the Sears catalog, known affectionately as the "big book," customers could order everything necessary to equip a house: furniture, appliances, rugs, cooking and eating utensils and paint. Between 1908 and 1937, they could also order the house itself. All told, Sears sold...
...Convinced that the African standard of living was bound to rise dramatically, the company began opening its giant Kingsway supermarkets and department stores in major West African cities as early as 1948, has gradually stocked them with a dazzling array of the latest Western products, from television sets to trousseaux. To help introduce Africans to these new luxuries, the Kingsway stores have used style shows and appetite-whetting advertising on the delights of modern living. As one measure of their success, United Africa executives cite the brisk sales of "ladies' foundation garments," an item that once would have interested...
...orphanage Carolina learned to sew, made laces, embroideries, bridal trousseaux; she left the institution only for group walks, saw no movies, read only religious books. In the home's routine, she rose every day at 5:30, attended Mass at 6, worked...
...whodunits got elaborate trousseaux, so as to set up house-haunting in style: winding staircases, sliding panels, well-trained lightning and thunder, gashed faces, bloody hands, Japanese servants, hidden blueprints, missing banknotes; it was kill and conk, conk and kill. George Moore once snorted that in War and Peace Tolstoy tried to outdo Nature, and would wake up at night screaming: "I forgot High Mass! I forgot a yacht race!" The authors of The Bat must have similarly wailed: "We left out a tarantula! We forgot a trapdoor...
...thing, fashion reporters were finally permitted to disclose the breathlessly awaited details of the royal trousseaux. Hats were "off the face," for royalty may not hide from onlookers under a lowering brim. For Princess Elizabeth there were pastel evening gowns, "really romantic, with rustling, or softly flowing full skirts." For 16-year-old Margaret ("She's a nice kid," said one of the designers, "with a naughty glint in her eye"), at least one "slinky, grown-up looking, sophisticated" chiffon. "Her Majesty," wrote one reporter, "is expected to land in a misty blue, bordered with matching ostrich feathers...