Word: waisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catherine the Great's palace was the "mechanical" wonder of the age: laden banquet tables which, on command, rose or sank through the floor. They were manipulated by "a forest of human hands" whose owners stood waist-deep in the habitually flooded basement. Frequently the ropes broke, the tables dropped, the operators were crushed to death...
Even without this revealing hint of what the Roosevelts talk about at table, last week's conference would have been newsworthy. It brought out 1) that Eleanor Roosevelt intends to be inveigled into no wasp-waist corsets this fall; 2) that the delicate White House problem of arranging diplomatic functions this season has been given over to the State Department. The President last week, for reasons of policy (see p. 11), kept an extremely circumspect silence, and Eleanor Roosevelt had to make news enough for two. She did it by expanding, under polite questioning, on her skins-and-pockets...
...enemy . . . will be given in a few days."* Estimating the material cost to Germany of shattering Poland in three weeks, the communique added: "Munitions and fuel consumption of this campaign amounted to only a fraction of [German] monthly production." With a stiff, heel-clicking bow from the waist to the Nazi Party, the Army High Command observed that in Poland spade-wielding young stalwarts of the Nazi Labor Service "made the task of leadership much easier. ... In the re-establishment of streets, bridges and railways ... the Labor Service particularly proved its worth...
...possible a corselet should be worn. This one piece is the better choice, but if the figure is heavy brassiere and well-boned corset may be preferred. Knickers should be in Directoire style, with elastic at waist and knees, in any dark shade preferred. Nurses and other national workers who wear light frocks will still choose white or the pinks, peach or pastel blue underwear shades...
Shoulders are vaguely broader. Bosoms conform to high, lifted lines. Everyone agrees on the minute waist line. Full skirts-"the bouncing, double, swing skirt"-are shorter, straight moulded skirts are longer. The steatopygous bustle is definitely...