Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silk for the Darlings. An American girl who recently escaped from Occupied France to London gave a more authentic account of life under the Germans. She said that women can still buy chic dresses for 5,000 francs and up without ration coupons. Woolen suits, silk nighties and stockings bring fancy black-market prices. But only the darlings of Nazis, grafters, collaborationists can afford such luxuries. The others wear plain, frequently remade suits and dresses, set off by towering upswept hairdos and elaborate hats. Tulle is one of the few unrationed materials and it is used plentifully for hats...
...first time* in a two-reeler called The Boxer, which seems much less funny than the worst picture Chaplin ever made. But even in a foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...
...walked unsteadily to the window. Raising it a bit, he sniffed the moist, cold air outside. Coughing violently, he slammed it shut and wound his weary way back to bed, being careful not to catch his white woolen bedsocks on the steel bedspring as he buried himself again under the warm covers...
Instead, a city magistrate reported clinically on its bumps and grinds.* Then some of the cast took the stand. Said famed Strip-Teaser Margie Hart, wearing woolen underwear beneath a purple ensemble: 'T hold the curtain around me, sort of tease-like." Some of her further guarantees of decorum: a G-string, rubberized stockings, three safety pins, a "victory garden" of two strategically placed flowers...
...though some are effective, Goldberg fans spent the most time with such famed Goldbergiana as the Boob McNutt series, Lala Palooza, and Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, who demonstrates his Simple Bookmark, operated by the lifting of reading glasses, which releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb...