Word: amber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber, U.S. sexseller (nearly a million copies), appeared this month on London's bookstalls. English critics thumbed through and condemned it as tedious, bad writing and worse taste. Typical was the reaction of the Evening Standard's reviewer: "Miss Winsor has attempted an erotic novel on a grand scale, swoony with ill-defined sex, written in a style that rasps the nerves like a Brooklyn accent. I gave up on page 272, by which time Amber had reached her eighth...
...Husband of Kathleen Winsor, author of Forever (seducible) Amber...
...though from the bowels of the earth . . . [then] a giant pillar of purple fire, 10,000 feet high, shooting skyward. ... At one stage [it] assumed the form of a giant square totem po'le, with its base about three miles long. Its bottom was brown, its center was amber, its top white. . . . Then, just when it appeared as though the thing had settled down, there came shooting out of the top a giant mushroom that increased the height of the pillar to a total of 45,000 feet. The mushroom top was even more alive than the pillar, sizzling...
...trusty epics (1942's The Robe; 1943's The Fountainhead); cloak-&-dagger tales set in more glamorous periods of history (Captain from Castile, Commodore Hornblower); fleshly garlands of love ("Oh!" sighed a harassed Manhattan bookdealer, "how tired I am of young girls whispering that they want Forever Amber...
From out these amber-colored doings we do find much unneeded sympathy for our newly-weds, "Shakey" and Mrs. Michels, H. "Bruin" Sheller and frau, and "Elongated Abe" and his wife Zaleznick. "The cob" (quotation borrowed) is the fact that our company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company stalwarts as "Buck" Ayers, B.A. (?) Johnson, "Rolie Polie" Foley, Regt, Comdr, Grenaker, and numerous other eupidites...