Word: underwear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...background are relatively unimportant. Temple pictures are rarely held up in production and often finished ahead of shooting schedule. She makes four a year for which she gets approximately $75,000 each. The rest of her income is derived from outside royalties with 15 commercial firms that sell underwear, coats, hats, shoes, dolls, books, toys, dresses, soap, hair-ribbons and table wear...
...number of complaints she has heard from personnel managers about dirty hands, dirty nails, dirty hair, dirty necks. She found it necessary to get right down to such questions as how often to take a bath (once a day, in summer twice) and how often to change underwear (frequently). Large women should beware of sweaters and even slim girls should wear brassieres with knits...
...singing Contralto Swarthout makes it clear that, in the current operatic sweepstakes, she will not be out distanced by the Hollywood field. She is less buoyant than Columbia's blonde Grace Moore, but she has more chic. MGM's svelte Jeanette MacDonald may do better in her underwear, but Contralto Swarthout's throat muscles do not wiggle. Over RKO's little Lily Pons, she has the definite advantage of being able to talk English...
...songs, red silk cassocks, white silk cottas, ruching for their necks; for secular songs, long blue serge trousers, white satin blouses, red pleated sashes. They arrived in Manhattan last week with a spiritual adviser, two tutors, a wardrobe mistress and two trained nurses who see that they change their underwear each day, feed them cod-liver oil, spray their throats, take all their temperatures at night and submit the charts to Director Lippert...
...Elmers marched out into the middle of Lindell Boulevard, asked each other: "Who's got the dice?" threw down match boxes, bits of tin, Missouri's milk-bottle-top sales tax tokens, proceeded to roll the ivories and completely demoralize traffic. Elmers capered about in diapers, smocks, underwear and funny faces blowing bugles, shooting blank pistols, tooting whistles, ringing bells, hooting sirens, beating tin cans. Prime trick was to stop a motorist, "inspect" his brakes, lights, horn, windshield wiper, then lift his hood and close the petcock on his gas line so that when released he would proceed...