Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn-to-dawn display of jewels and furs has been known to disconcert even the G's well-trained staff. Last week a waiter greeted a middle-aged lady by asking: "If you wear mink at breakfast, how can you top it the rest of the day?" The woman coolly taught him one of the newer ploys of ostentation: "I save my stone martens for dinner...
...tracks. A wheeled vehicle makes a whine that increases in pitch as its speed increases. A man walking toward the radar sounds like "ump-ump-ump,"-each "ump" being Tipsy's reaction to the relatively fast movement of his legs as he takes a step. A woman's skirt has no effect, but she moves her arms differently and swings her hips more, so the radar sound that comes from her has more frills, lacking the plain solidity of the male...
...order for bolt retainers from Ryan Aeronautical Co. They picked up machinery at auctions, set up a profitable, 24-hour operation, spelling each other at the machines. When war's end grounded the aircraft nut-and-bolt business, Engineer Reiner invented the Lady Ellen Klip-pie, an improved woman's hairclip that has captured 90% of the market. Later, he invented the Kaylock nut, a self-locking aircraft nut so light that it reduced the B-52's weight by 600 Ibs., is now used by 90% of U.S. aircraft makers...
...office joke. But since the office was the 17th century French court-Louis XIII was her uncle, Louis XIV her first cousin-the lady left footnotes in the sands of time. Biographer V. (for Victoria Mary) Sackville-West, 67, has written a witty, informal, entertaining book about the bedeviled woman who was known not by her titles, but with simple Bourbon haughtiness as plain Mademoiselle...
...published novel, is peopled with stylish, upper-middle-class Manhattanites who yearn for just those few extra thousands a year. This sort of yearning leads to murder for profit. The romantic side of the plot, offering the heroine a wide choice of elegant men, documents the complexity of a woman's mind and heart. The case is wrapped up by Inspector McKee, nagged by his boss the commissioner, who, in turn, is nagged by political pressures. Expertly tooled and shined, soundly constructed...