Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Declaring that she aimed "to clothe rather than astonish," Designer Gabrielle Chanel stole a march on her fellow big shots by opening a full weekend ahead of them, capitalizing on her noted simplicity. Near the centre line of fashion were oldtimer Chanel's wool frocks with ruffles at wrist and neck, forward or "profiled" berets, dark velvet afternoon and dinner dresses, strapless evening gowns...
...knot of sidewalk spectators bustled a puritanical gaffer. He grabbed Lady Godiva's wrist, clawed at her dangling bare leg: "Down with this sacrilege; wearing nothing but a bathing suit! This is supposed to be a God-fearing country." Lady Godiva's father, marching beside the mare, knocked the old man to the pavement. The crowd pinned him down. As police dragged the oldster to safety he shrieked: "How dare they do that to a little girl of 13? Poor little innocent-making an exhibition of herself at that tender age! I think it's awful." Unabashed...
Divorced. Onetime Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte, 30; by Madeline Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, 45; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Grounds: On various occasions he had 1) knocked her down, 2) broken her wrist, 3) hit her with his fist after a dance; been "exceedingly unpleasant.'' Same day, driving an automobile near Auxonne, France, Fiermonte smashed into a tree. Of his three women companions, one. an American girl, Marion Whitworth. was hospitalized...
French truck drivers, drawing triple pay, were going out of Leftist Spain last week sporting gold wrist watches, silk socks & shirts, smoking the best cigars. At restaurants just inside the French border they could be seen swizzling champagne, ordering such delicacies as speckled trout, fresh asparagus, vieux cognac. These lusty lads have been driving an average of 200 heavy trucks per day from Republican France over the officially closed frontier into Leftist Spain. The 2,000 tons they took in daily were mostly passed as "agricultural implements" or "foodstuffs." A truck careening down the road at Montauban overturned last week...
...past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori, Mountaineer Tilman admits that he and his companion, Eric Shipton, lost their way, their tempers, and almost their lives-in addition to which he dropped his camera, broke his wrist watch, while Shipton sprained his shoulder hanging onto shrubs on a convex slope...