Word: corset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheel chair since he broke his hip in a 1936 studio fall, might soon be back on his feet. He walked with the help of a handrail in his latest picture, now hobbles around the studio on crutches. After he sheds 20 pounds and gets fitted with a leather corset contraption, he will try walking without the crutches...
...come a long way from the days of Voltaire's Camargo, who was the first dancer to shorten her skirts, and Marie Sallé, who, in 1734, shocked a London correspondent into reporting that "she has dared to appear . . . without pannier, skirt or bodice . . . Apart from her corset and petticoat, she wore only a simple dress of muslin draped about her in the manner of a Greek statue...
...retreat. One woman delegate knitted steadily through the three-day session. Another viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...
Singeing in Sing Sing. For the sports-loving, rubbernecking world-at-large, Runyon never failed to raise the curtain with a maximum of gamy drama. "Now the woman and the crumpled little corset-salesman," he choruses in the Snyder-Gray case, "their once piping-hot passion colder than a dead man's toes, begin trying to save their respective skins from the singeing at Sing Sing." "Show us how you struck," the prosecutor orders Judd Gray, and up stands the little salesman, removes his spectacles, and "cocks" the very sash weight with which he bludgeoned his mistress' sleeping...
...Labor Party asked Freda Utley to stand for Parliament in Manchester, but she declined. She joined the Communist Party and left for Moscow, there married a Soviet government employee she had met in England. It was in Moscow that she bought her first corset. Into it she stuffed the secret dispatches entrusted to her by the Comintern to deliver to the Chinese Communists...