Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sacrificial Altar." The week's sound & fury was touched off by Virginia's portly Governor William Tuck in a loud speech before his General Assembly. The Governor put on his striped trousers and wing collar for the occasion. His double chin quivered as he attacked Harry Truman's civil rights program, (anti-poll tax, antilynching, antidiscrimination, antisegregation) as an "unwarranted assault upon the established customs and traditions of the entire Southland." Too long, he cried, had "the electoral vote of the South been counted . . . even before it was cast. . . . The people of the Southern states have been...
After that, it was nip & tuck. The five finalists looked almost equally spectacular in evening dresses or in bathing suits (two-piecers, exposing the midriff, were worn for the first time). "Talent" proved the deciding factor...
...argot of which traces still survive. "Frisking" meant searching, then as now. A watch was a "tick," a handkerchief was a "wipe," and "wipe priggers" (pickpockets) flourished among theater standees. A glass of gin was a "flash of lightning',, and too many flashes often lit the way to "Tuck 'em Fair" (the place of execution...
Grocer J. Frank Grimes wanted a homey magazine that his customers could tuck into their shopping bags. Editor John W. Mullen wanted a mass audience for his Family Life movement, which fights delinquency and divorce. Young (31) Marshall Field IV wanted to try his wings as a publishing angel. Last week the three of them got together as sponsors of American Family, a 5? monthly to be launched in the fall with a starting circulation...
Squash Nip and Tuck...