Evening star. [volume], January 16, 1949, Page 7, Image 128

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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Horry S. Truman (left) and Thomas E. Dewey as they appeared in 1919.
Rudolph Volentino, adored by countless women, in a scene with Alice Terry from
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," produced in 1921.
TN THE 1919-20 period im
mediately following World
War I, milady really started
to assert herself. She began
shoddlng her feet ("tootsies”
or ‘'doggies,” in the slan
guage of the period) with
spike-heeled “pumps,” instead
of the more copservative,
prim — and comfortable —
high-button shoes. It was the
beginning of the great fem
inine infiltration into thor
oughly masculine sanctum
sanctorums.
Wqmen invaded tonsorial
parlors, as the barber shops
were once called, to have
their "crowning glory” snipped
into hair-bobs; started in
This is the second install
ment from the book, *7 Re
member Distinctly," compiled
by Agnes Rogers and Frederick
Lewis Allen. Other installments
will be published from time to
time.
earnest their ultimately suc
cessful drive for equal rights
and suffrage as well.
Those were the days when
doughboys (GIs to veterans
of the frightful ’40s > were
compelled to affect a healthy,
ruddy complexion brought on
by choker-type tunics, such
as was sported by a young
Army officer named Harry S.
Truman.
It was when aviation be
gan spreading its wings and
Navy flyers winged the frail
NC-4 in May, 1919, for the
first flight to Europe via the
Azores. In June, 1919, Alcock
and Browne made the first
direct flight to Ireland. That
was eight years before Lind
bergh’s flight, and when a
handsome young fellow named
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
was Assistant Secretary of
Navy.
And in 1921 Rudolph Valen
tino was entrancing bobby -
soxless bobby - sockers. not
with Bing Crosbylsh groaning
but with his attractive phy
sique, graceful dancing and
ardent love-making In the
movies.
Flimsy as this craft appears, it made the first air crossing of the Atlantic Ocean
in May, 1919. It was the Navy's NC-4.
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