Word: undressed
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Washrooms are full of fuss and flutter, and the babbling confusion of Marines in undress waiting to take showers, crowding around mirrors to put their hair in curlers and massaging their faces with creams. In the grey dawn they comb out the pin curls, feverishly powder noses, paint on lipstick (which matches the Marine red hat-cord) and dash off to breakfast and their duties...
...widow, seemed "a startled-looking little girl, whose round hat with ribbons would be forever slipping backward on her head." Quiet, modest, gentle, nevertheless "in her underslip, the translucence of pale flesh shone on her arms and breast. An unexpected little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality, headlight eyes, "neither Negro nor half-breed," possessing "a fierce magnificence of Indian-colored flesh, high cheekbones...
Marlene Dietrich was ready for her new picture, Kismet (see cut). Hollywood proudly announced that it took four hours to undress and gild...
...students are to receive seamen's whites and blues as outlined in their first orders. Members of the NROTC Unit, which is to maintain its distinctive identity throughout the program, will receive, in addition to the dress blues now held, two khaki summer working uniforms, dress whites, and midshipman undress whites. Shoulder boards for the khakis and whites are not authorized at present, nor is the wearing of brown-or white shoes with any uniforms. Certain items for all hands, such as shoes, athletic equipment, and miscellaneous small stores, will round out the basic issue
Brave Winston. Vincent Sheean resisted the seductions of this phony pagany by refusing to undress-though "it probably was indecent of me to remain clothed in the midst of all that nakedness." If there were "too many elaborate strangers," Sheean "became violently ill and had to spend the greater part of [his] visit in bed, vomiting profusely from morning to night." He believes that "Maxine understood that it was some kind of unconscious protest...