Word: blimpishly
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...Anyone? Back home, the Deputy Fon of Bafut got a Blimpish reception from the city fathers when he offered his adoptive town of Bournemouth a ready-made menagerie: "There had never been a zoo in the town ever since it had become a town, and so they did not see why there should be one now." For a year, Durrell almost literally had a zoo in his luggage. Then a 17th century mansion on the Channel island of Jersey was ceded to the animal kingdom...
...Turkish baths go, the establishment beneath London's Imperial Hotel in Russell Square is one of the best. From its Gothic galleries, stone monarchs and prophets (Queen Elizabeth I, Erasmus) have gazed through the steam at generations of bare, Blimpish backsides. One night last week the steam rooms and massage parlors presented a shocking sight: crowds of people who were fully dressed, or almost. To celebrate the London premiere of Auntie Mame, starring Bea Lillie, Producer David Pelham had picked the Turkish bath as the logical place for a party. The result was as wacky a shindig...
...hired them. As the stars in a parade of 39 witnesses at Broady's trial, the two provided the district attorney with his most damning evidence, the newspapers with enough gossip to keep East Side telephones, from PLaza I to BUtterfield 8, buzzing for weeks. Items: ¶ Blimpish John Jacob Astor testified that in 1954 he had hired Broady to tap the phone in his Fifth Avenue home in the hope of learning some of the secrets of Gertrude Gretsch Astor, his wife at that time. Mrs. Astor, meanwhile, was watching her husband with her own private...
...Pretty Mean Savages." At week's end Governor Twining flew to Arusha, proclaimed martial law in three frontier forest reserves. "We are dealing with desperate armed gangsters," the governor said. Tanganyika's whites agreed, but unlike their blimpish neighbors in Kenya Colony, some of them understood that the Africans themselves (notably, the prosperous Chagga) are equally interested in keeping the terrorists out. "The Mau Mau made a big mistake in sending this invasion force," said one white official, and a Chagga farmer agreed. "They looked like savages to me," he said...
...Ohio, Stevenson will get little help from impish, blimpish Michael V. Di Salle, onetime Price Boss now running for U.S. Senator against the incumbent John Bricker, who is probably the best vote getter in Ohio. The G.O.P. ticket is further buttressed by the candidacy of Bob Taft's brother Charles for the governorship now held by popular Democrat Frank Lausche. If anybody can beat Lausche, Charles Taft...