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...expresses her jealousy by denouncing the English mother of an American soldier's illegitimate quads. A friend of mine in a letter last week expressed it in classic parody: "Oh to be in England now that the Army's there." British females, given good girdles and such, silk stockings, high heels, a permanent wave and a good set of cosmetics, could easily come up to American standards of beauty. After five years of war they aren't doing...
Parapants. In Manhattan, Mrs. Virginia Bell Jack received from her Thunderbolt-pilot husband in England a pair of real silk (German parachute) panties...
...When Olsen & Johnson appeared in pink silk panties and cutaways, a couple down front began undressing. No sooner were they tossed out of the theater than the orchestra leader started to strip...
...details-how the pretty, sharp-featured Linda had clerked in a store, ushered in a cinema, shipped as hairdresser on Red Star liners; how Antonio had bought her a passage home instead of an engagement ring, how her sister had given her, as part of her trousseau, the yellow silk pajamas with the green dragon embroidered on the back...
Postage Pilferer. For 33 years Charles worked as a clerk in the East India Company, totting up sales figures for tea, indigo, silks and spices. Neighbors used to set their watches when his tiny figure emerged in the morning. Dressed in black, his spindly legs sheathed in Chinese silk stockings, and carrying a green umbrella, Lamb walked placidly to work. He "looked no one in the face for more than a moment, yet contrived to see everything." Perched on his high office stool, he mailed, at the East India Company's expense, the numerous letters written by his youthful...