Word: amber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amber got kicked out of bed. After 38 days of exposure (at $10,000 a day), the multimillion-dollar boudoir epic looked like a bust to Darryl Zanuck, who decided to throw it all away and try again, later. Blonde little Peggy Cummins, British actress who had been chosen to play the lead, was apparently out of a job. But she got another. After all that buildup as a Restoration pillow-fighter she was suddenly transferred to Bob, Son of Battle-something wholesome about a sheep...
...wasn't too late. He started off rapidly toward Widener, kept on past it, dodged across Mass. Avenue, bounded down Holyoke Street and raced up the stairs to his room. "The Great Gatsby" was on the rug where he had left it, and there was an inch of amber left in the bottle on the mantlepiece. F. Scott Fitzvag held the bottle up to the light, proposed a toast, and slowly let the liquid run into the glass with the Harvard Seal on the side...
...similar circumstances Chancellor of the Exchequer Gladstone drank eggnog; Disraeli, brandy & soda; and a grinning Churchill announced that he was not sure whether his amber-colored liquid was cider or ginger ale (he prefers brandy to either of them...
Peggy Cummins, Hollywood's blonde Amber, gave her inflammable all to a bedroom scene, and smoke billowed up from the floor. Just a short circuit in the wiring...
Peggy Cummins, long the leader in the Hollywood clamber for the Amber role in Forever Amber-Irish-born, London-developed, 5 ft. i in., blonde, babyfaced, ripe-mouthed, grave-eyed and 20-bagged...