Posted on 10/30/2013 10:13:14 AM PDT by Stoat
There are a couple of copies on bookfinder.com (which searches bookdealers’ inventory lists including amazon.com).
They are at $39.99 and $121. But if you return to the site periodically, you may eventually find a copy for $10 or less.
There is often at least one deal with copies of ANY book at over $100. Sometimes also the same dealer inventory is listed through numerous services resulting in multiple hits “at that price”.
But often such books sell for far less.
You may also try google books or some similar service (maybe through archive.org) to see if the book has been scanned in online someplace.
Looking like a girl and acting like a lady never goes out of fashion.
Ladies? Help?
Kartographer, I agree with you.
We could all use more tidy dressing, more gestures of respect, and more consideration for people as individuals rather than as useful objects.
Once when my dad and I were on a fishing trip, we were devoured by mosquitoes, right through jeans and long-sleeve shirts. We put Scotch on the bites (cheap stuff, mini-bottles from an airline, remember those days), and it killed the itch completely.
Ah yes, girdles, the 50's version of a chastity belt! I'm betting that they (girdles) will not make headway against the thong. Sensible hats (w/ veils), white gloves, pearls, OK but "girdles"? why not a "burqa".
Regards,
GtG
Nully was making a joke. It’s hard to tell, because he always looks like that ;-).
I remember the white gloves from some old movies, kind of strange a kid would try to bring those back though. lol
“Teenager Maya Van Wagenen cleverly chronicled how she used tips from the decades-old “Betty Cornell’s Teen-age Popularity Guide’’ to gain an edge as a student new to Brownsville, Texas.”
An improvement on what they’ve been using nowadays, which seems to be the Kama Sutra.
Today, girdles are called “shapewear.” I refuse to do such a thing, myself. I’ve had ten children, and if you’re distressed by the way I look, that’s your problem.
(That’s a general you, not you personally. I wish we had a singular and plural “you” available, like other languages do ... other than “you,” “y’all,” and “all y’all,” which one has to explain to the non-Southron.)
Once when my dad and I were on a fishing trip, we were devoured by mosquitoes, right through jeans and long-sleeve shirts. We put Scotch on the bites (cheap stuff, mini-bottles from an airline, remember those days), and it killed the itch completely.
Giving a teething child a dab of whisky on their gums with the corner of a washcloth is probably considered child abuse these days by the Mewling Quim control freaks Child UnProtective Services out there and a perfectly valid excuse to steal your children away and put them in the waiting hands of some poorly vetted foster perverts.
Gloves keep yuck off your hands, even in the South.
My babies like red wine.
I am old enough to remember people getting dressed up to fly on a plane.
“. I wish I could have experienced classy time”
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The fifties were my prime years and yes,we did dress up for almost anything.
The biggest thing for me though is the common courtesy that was shown to everyone,including a respect for women.I was only about 18 when the man downstairs tipped his hat to me when we ran into each other.I felt as if I had finally arrived :-).
The decade takes a bad rap that is not deserved. The 60s ruined everything and coarsened society.
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I was hoping that you ladies would make him pay for his sad attemp at levity, but I guess you are right nature has already punished him enough. ;-)
I met the woman that became my wife in early 1982. To this day I hold the car door open for her, hold her chair in restaurants, etc....
I don't see any reason not to.
“...the girls are just infatuated with how classy women dressed in the 50s.”
Grace Kelly in “rear window” - gorgeous clothes.
I’ll add that if you watch Boardwalk Empire (1920s era) on HBO the costumes are sumptuous, men and women. One dress in an early episode was so beautiful I had to rerun the whole scene since I wasn’t paying attention to anything but the frock!
“Maybe if our boys were taught to respect women and not to ever treat them like ‘street walkers’ then girls wouldn’t grow up feeling like the have to be one to get a boys attention and respect.”
I’m going to say here what I said on facebook yesterday to a young man who posted an article about Chivalry being dead. The author blamed modern technology, twitter, etc. but of course that is wrong. Chivalry is dead because the Feminists killed it.
I hope the next generation can fix a lot of the stuff that my generation destroyed.
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