Word: broomsticks
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...along with Radcliffe's new lines, we should have this Spring: a variety of colors--brash, bright, and buoyant in skirts, deep tones or dainty pastels in dresses; a similar variety in skirts--from the Guatemalan to the Indian print to the broomstick skirt; as for blouses, nothing much can change there anyway. And we've even heard of a lipstick called Volupte...
...McThing (by Mary Chase) reveals the author of Harvey in her accustomed whimsical mood. But though Mrs. Chase's fancy leaps, her stagecraft stumbles and shuffles; and though the playwright bangs about on a broomstick, what the play really needs is a broom...
...true love, and Venus catches the glow of poetry, the mocking glints of parody, the flashing of rhetoric and the shimmer of wit. Amid such a tangle of traffic lights, traffic itself snarls, detours and halts. In The Lady's Not for Burning, with its medieval echoes and broomstick leaps of witchcraft and romance, Fry could be simultaneously prankster and poet, could spoof the very verse he spouted. But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare down its extravagancies as arrant trespassers...
Sense of Mission. In Dallas, H. A. Hubert explained to the judge why he beat his wife with a broomstick at regular intervals to discourage her from going to church: "I want to go to hell, and I want her to go along...
...pausing occasionally to shake hands and chat. When she finished, both Washington's male correspondents and overdressed newshens were hers. The Washington Times-Herald (now owned by Chicago's Britain-hating Colonel Bertie McCormick) did run a cartoon which showed the Princess and her husband riding a broomstick, and which was captioned "Trick or Treat." Further more, it reported that the Princess forgot at one point to pull the shades before changing her dress at Blair House. Except for this sniping, she enjoyed a fine press...