Word: corset
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...monotony and the impatience sometimes caused accidents. Carl Gottlieb fell overboard and was nearly decapitated by the boat's propellers. About to duplicate Rizzo's feat-minus the presence of real sharks-Dreyfuss was almost imprisoned in his cage. Wearing a steel-and-leather corset for protection, Shaw spent two days being ingested by Bruce. Roy Scheider took no chances for his own moment of truth, which was to take place in the cabin of the sinking ship. He kept his own hammers and axes close at hand in case the effects men did not move fast enough...
...object not only to the fact that Maud Gleason was misrepresented in the article-which conveys an entirely distorted idea of her personal interests and values. I object to the style of journalism which crams the identity of a living person into an ugly corset like "Phi Beta Phyllis." We all have to struggle against the labels with which family, teachers, and institutions occasionally brand use "the smart one," "the pretty one." "the down-to-earth-one," "the artistic one," "the grind," "the goof," ect. I think it is our duty as fellow students to try and protect each other...
...young entrepreneur's career began at age 14, when his mother, who owned a corset store in Brooklyn, cut off his allowance. He took odd jobs as a theater usher and a mail clerk, decided to skip college and become a talent agent. Geffen falsely claimed a drama degree in order to land a job in the William Morris Agency's mail room. "I came in an hour before anyone else so I could check all the incoming mail," he recalls. "I was just trying to intercept the letter from U.C.L.A. saying they had never heard...
...like Sinbad in the Cave of Diamonds." He gleefully made off with prints once owned by Walpole that he saw hanging unrecognized in friends' houses. Once he tracked down 400 letters Walpole had written to a lady friend; they had languished in a London attic wrapped in old corset strings...
...gentlemen say will certainly not restore it." In something of an over statement, he said that charges of impropriety in the financing of San Clemente were "carried, usually, in eight-column heads in most of the papers of this country," while the "retractions ended back up with the corset ads, for the most part...