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The airplane remains half hers, and she intends to go after the derby's $15,000 first prize herself. She manages to convince Janet that Ace is a heel. Ace is able to get his buddy Denny Corson ( Eddie Foy, Jr. ), who has just broken his speed record, to let Janet use his home-built aircraft instead, without letting Janet know that Ace is ...
The book The Powder Puff Derby of 1929: The First All Women's Transcontinental Air Race, written by Gene Nora Jessen, was published in 2002. [ 28 ] The 2010 documentary Breaking through the Clouds: The First Women's National Air Derby covers the race from inception through conclusion, includes interviews with some surviving relatives of pilots ...
Balanchine and Karinska together developed the American (or powder puff) tutu ballet costume[9] which became an international costume standard. With Dorothy Jeakins , she won the 1948 Oscar for color costume design (the first year costume design was divided into color and black & white categories) for Joan of Arc , [ 1 ] and was nominated in ...
A compact (also powder box, powder case and flapjack) is a cosmetic product. It is usually a small round metal case and contains two or more of the following: a mirror, pressed or loose face powder with a gauze sifter and a powder puff .
Ellene Alice Bailey, ca. 1893 E.A. Bailey powder puff design, U.S. patent no. 471,680, 1892. Ellene Alice Bailey (1853 – July 22, 1897) was an American designer and inventor specializing in clothing and household goods. She patented over a dozen of her many inventions. [1]
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Powder puff is a piece of soft material used for the application of powder. The term may also refer to one of the following: Powderpuff (sports), female divisions for typically male sports, in some contexts "Powder puff", a type of ballet tutu; Powder-puff plant (disambiguation), several plants; Powderpuff, a type of the Chinese Crested Dog breed
Powder puffs have been used as a stereotype image for soft, careless femininity, as seen, e.g., in the term "powderpuff sports", including collegiate sorority flag football leagues. The name of the Powerpuff Girls is a pun on "powder puff".