Word: funning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year. With him absent, Legionnaires planned their biggest cheers for Chief of Staff Ike Eisenhower. There were already rumors that Legion bigwigs would seize the occasion to get an Eisenhower-for-President bandwagon rolling, under Legion auspices. If they did, politicking might turn out to be almost as much fun as fanny-pinching...
...young wives formed the Women's Organization to War on Styles. In a few days, the W.O.W.S. rounded up 750 members, started picketing a dress shop in bathing suits. "We Have Nothing to Hide," said their placards, "Do We Need Padding?" At Valdosta, Ga., businessmen joined the fun, chartered the League of Broke Husbands, went picketing, too. A Georgia legislator announced that he would soon introduce a bill banning long skirts. Detroit's street-railway boss declared that long skirts made the boarding of streetcars hazardous...
...noon today New York City will be firmly in the grip of the season's most torrid heat wave--generated by the American Legion's Societe des Quarante et Huit Chevaux, official custodians of the huge quantity of fun and frolic that is to be showered on the convention of some 200,000 Legionnaires. Only blue-nosed New Yorkers--if such there be--will resent the audible expressions of good, clean fun, and by the time the last Legionnaire entrains for home, New York will have forgotten just who was making all the noise...
Monday through Friday, David Lene-man paints silk ties and blouses. His shimmering cravat art-fauns, peonies, moons, banjos-is strictly for cash. But on weekends he goes out to the garage back of his Hollywood house and paints for fun, in the most enjoyable way he knows...
...Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. Shirley Temple loves Gary Grant who loves Myrna Loy who thinks she loves Rudy Vallee, with fun & games for all (TIME...