Word: earrings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company were no less help to the cause of Afro-Anglo-American friendship. One evening after the day's shooting, for example, American Negro Actor Raymond St. Jacques wandered into the Plage bar dressed in a gaudy, pajama-like African garment called a sapara, accented by a gold earring in his left ear. A half-loaded American businessman turned to his drinking companion and said loudly, "Hey! Look how colorful that...
...girls argue that their airy lobes will save Daddy money because earrings can no longer fall down side walk gratings or get left behind in telephone booths (what woman leaves a regular earring on her telephone ear while calling?). Moreover, they argue - with some reason - that pierced earrings are by far the most attractive ones available. Fanciest are the ethereal antique candelabra and gypsy gewgaws, but most popular are the simple gold, pearl or jade "buttons" - perhaps be cause they do not catch on sweaters...
Died. Zachary Scott, 51, character actor, a mustachioed Texan who ambled around Hollywood wearing a pirate-style gold earring, was most often cast as the oil-slick villain of Hollywood cliffhangers (Ruthless, Whiplash), but proved equally proficient in the demanding Broadway role of the relentless defense attorney in Faulkner's 1959 Requiem for a Nun; of cancer; in Austin, Texas...
Sometimes a piercee is a girl who just never liked non-pierced earrings. The clip earrings always hurt her ears, and the screw ones either slid sideways or fell off during the evening. Pierced ears seemed a good way to remedy such problems, because the piercee cannot feel the earrings she is wearing. Of course, pierced earrings are not completely loss-proof. One 'Cliffie wore her earrings to sleep, and woke up the next morning to find one gone. She looked under the pllow and searched the sheets, but with no luck, and so considered the earring lost. When...
Even those stubborn souls who have thus far kept their ears intact have not remained untouched. Earring wearing has become much more common, and even non-piercees often sport earrings to class. And, significantly, the latest fashion in earrings is one which looks as though it is for pierced ears, but really screws on to the ears of the timid