Word: akimbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into a palmy Bombay hotel purrs Mr. Gable, mustachios akimbo. He is a high-hat English jewel thief posing as a Lloyd's of London sluefoot. Behind him undulates Rosalind Russell, clad in a white hat the size of a Syrian water wheel. She, too, is a gem thief, but posing as a baroness. One look at her and Actor Gable begins leering, ogling, wriggling his mustaches. It is Empire Day and the two carat-coppers are, unknown to each other, after a very heavy stone named the Star of Asia, which customarily swings from the wrinkled neck...