Word: barmaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear himself of the robbery charges against him. In the process, he inadvertently proves all the other villagers dishonest. The philosophical implications of this gentle-paced idyl are sometimes furthered and sometimes obscured by the emotional didos of a ponderously melancholy siren (Christine Norden) and a fiercely spiritual little barmaid (Sheila Manahan...
...selling historical novel about the era of Cortes. Tyrone Power keeps a medium-tight rein on his passionate Spanish nature; Lee J. Cobb is a boozer who likes disguises; Cesar Romero-a rather thin Stout Cortes-wears a rich black beard. Newcomer Jean Peters plays a pretty, vacuous runaway barmaid who is described, enthusiastically, as "a wench for the New World." Thomas Gomez, in priestly robes, puts forward a few ill-chosen words in favor of the conquest of Mexico (something a few centuries too soon, for a churchman of imperial Spain, about the happy day when all men, even...
Trudgery & Tomato Juice. The debate lasted nearly 20 hours. Twenty times, the tired members trudged to the division lobbies. The Commons bar and cafeteria remained bravely open all night. At 3 a.m., pale but still smiling, Barmaid Doris staggered in with an armful of tomato juice cans, mixed the members' latest favorite cocktail-tomato juice, sherry and Worcester sauce...
Australia seems to be feeling more tolerant toward the uninhibited Yanks (who were never a patch on uninhibited Australians). A Melbourne barmaid overheard two Yankee voices last week. "Coo," she sighed, "It's Americans you are! My, I wish we had you back." To get them back, Calwell offered U.S. veterans special bonuses and aids. His immigration propagagandists turned on the heat. A brochure printed for distribution from Australian consulates in the U.S. called up memories of "those high, clear skies, the rollers at Bondi's [Beach] and the surfers' paradise, the hurly-burly of King...
Working girls at Prestwick, Scotland, thronged around his plane as if he were a combination of Tyrone Power and Laurence Olivier. Queen Mary, a woman with no nonsense about her, was openly captivated. Cried a London barmaid: "Nobody can say anything but the best about Ike." Taxi drivers, fishmongers, newspapermen echoed her words. In Luxembourg, street crowds chanted "Ike! Ike! Ike!" in the most undignified and friendly manner possible. U.S. occupation troops in Austria. Italy and Germany seemed to forget that they were fed up with garrison duty...