Word: corset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devoted followers buried him in the churchyard. Later, his tomb was incorporated in the basement of a new church, making it a shrine near which today is a Memorial Museum containing such relics as his "mourner's bench" and his wife Sarah's reputed corset. Last week in the dining hall adjoining these holy spots, Negroes sang hymns, ate ice cream & cake at a "Grand Educational and Sesquicentennial Concert and Social." The African Methodist Episcopal Church was celebrating the 150th anniversary of its existence, which it dates from the time that Richard Allen left the white Methodist Church...
...truck a tense-faced man of 30 pulled a football helmet on his head, strapped it firmly under his chin. Unbuttoning his topcoat he fingered a steel-ribbed corset beneath his bathing suit, adjusted the pads on his shoulders, chest and knees. "Here's the place," said the driver, stopping the truck close to the guardrail on the span about two thirds the distance to Yerba Buena Island. "We're three minutes late." In an auto on the ramp over their heads, a cameraman for the San Francisco Examiner (morning Hearst-paper) was checking his shutter adjustment, squinting...
...becoming lack of modesty that has always been such a prominent characteristic of American advertising, is still just that. And if anything it is getting more so. Time was when corset advertisements were the only public ventures into the realms of the great undressed, and although nasty little schoolboys used to gaze longingly upon them on long train trips and on warm evenings, the pictures were comparatively chaste...
...story of emotions, methods, and motives in that crucial zone of law and government bordering both upon the courts and the executive." The Attorney General, sitting in his red-carpeted room in the handsome new Justice Building, is justifiably proud of his office's progress since the great, corset-wearing William Pinkney quit the job because he did not wish to live in Washington, and since William Wirt had to beg for two washstands. Not until 1822 did the Attorney General have official quarters, then only one room in the War Department. Not until 1870 was there a Department...
...Association. With the Christmas rush behind them, the Easter season dimly distant, the retailers took a full week off, stayed for a five-day meeting which included no less than 35 sessions, 170 speeches. Between sessions some retailers managed to squeeze in visits to spring furniture shows, lamp shows, corset shows. Attendance at Manhattan hotspots during the week showed a considerable bulge. For most of the retailers, however, the convention was serious business, coming under the auspicious heading of "Solving 1937 Problems of Retailing in the Public Interest." No more altruistic as a group than the National Association of Manufacturers...