Word: corset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London working woman had no complaint: "I still got the corset I bought for the Coronation but I only wear it Sundays. This utility stuff don't bother me, dearie...
...dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant one-thanks to his vibrant averageness, Hope is any healthy, cocky, capering American. He is the guy who livens up the summer hotel, makes things hum at the corset salesmen's convention, keeps a coachful of passengers laughing for an hour when a train is stalled. With his ski-slide nose and matching chin, he looks a little funny but he also looks normal, even personable, seems part of the landscape rather than the limelight...
...ladies lived in a world of sweetness and leisure. On the contrary, their nerves were strained by 52 weeks of routs, jours, fashionable events of all sorts and by problems of a private nature. Their moods, which hinged on the more or less tolerable torment of the tightly laced corset . . . were feverish, stormy, or even worse...
...Moatsie stayed in Moscow, but for two weeks "cried [herself] to sleep every night and couldn't keep any food down." Moatsie kept going. Russian women enviously fingered her American corset. "A naughty gleam" came to the eye of a fellow correspondent when Moatsie was shown wounded Russian soldiers lying naked in healing mineral baths, and she cracked: "I am prepared to testify that the Germans aren't hitting below the belt...
Lucky indeed is the U.S. small businessman who neatly straddled war problems and priorities with the simple formula of 50% peace business, 50% war business. Such a man is Long Island Girdlemaker Max Kops, whose Nemo Corset Co. last week was making WAAC girdles, Army flare parachutes and Medical Corps supplies on one hand, doing a flourishing peacetime business on the other...