Word: wrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Socialite women on the French Riviera had the brilliant idea last winter of dressing for the beach in flowered brassieres and wrap-around shorts, supposedly copied from the modest, knee-length pareu that Tahitian women wear. Last week U. S. manufacturers were plugging "Tahitian pareos" for the Florida socialite trade. But by a cruel irony, in Tahiti itself, biggest of the French Society Islands Tahitian women were forbidden to wear indecent pareus. Instead they were supposed to wear imported French cotton dresses...
...Wrap a red woolen sock still warm from the foot around the neck to cure a sore throat...
...Chinchilla wrap with silver fox collar...
...front cover) It took Paramount 56 days to wrap up Lewis Carroll's masterpiece of nonsense and deliver it to U. S. cinema audiences for Christmas. As a prize package for the holidays the picture presented great problems to match great possibilities. To begin with, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass had to be telescoped into one script. A cast of Big Names had to be assembled for publicity purposes and yet a Nobody had to play Alice. Artist John Tenniel's familiar characters had to be imitated if not exactly copied. And finally the screen...
While the others watch, Professor Wright and Mr. Tanner for five secret days carefully, gently and awfully measure each & every princely bone. They photograph them, wrap them in finest lawn. Dean Norris replaces the bones in the urn with a statement on parchment of what has been done in June 1933. The Dean reads part of the Anglican burial service. The urn is resealed and replaced in its niche in Westminster Abbey. King George gets a confidential report, which he permits Anatomist Wright and Muniment-Keeper Tanner to reveal...