Word: bons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sealed Orders. In Manhattan, Edward Mulstay, 54, returned from an unplanned, 19-day trip to Europe, explained ruefully that he had left his hearing aid at home when he went to a bon-voyage party aboard the liner America, failed to hear the ail-ashore whistle blow...
Canada's peripatetic External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, bandying spirit-of-Geneva small talk with Soviet big shots during a social visit to Moscow last week, clinked champagne glasses with Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovitch and pitched a slow-curve bon mot: "We in Canada have an interesting geographical position in the world-between the Soviet Union and the United States . . . You might say we are the ham in the sandwich." Suggested Kaganovitch politely: "Or perhaps a good bridge?" "Well," agreed Pearson, "perhaps that's a nicer way of putting...
...Hollywood, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, confided that her heart really goes out to the lower animals. Sighed she wistfully: "All I have now is a great Dane, a Chihuahua, three cats named Sabina. Romulus and Ophelia, and a rabbit known as Bublitchki. I had a pink poodle, Bon Bon, which just died after we had it dyed pink to match my pink Jaguar ... I also had some mice, but somebody let them out in Atlantic City...
Crime Wave. In Kansas City, Mo., Glenn Bernard Mitchell, 32, was sentenced to 10-to-21 years in prison for walking into the Bon-Ton Beauty Salon, receiving a cold-wave permanent, then stealing $38 at gunpoint and fleeing without paying for the hairdo...
...white satin, Eartha smoldered in red bugle beads. Where Dorothy swayed in sweet resignation, Eartha froze and darted her almond eyes. When Eartha sang, it was in a smoky, reedlike quaver. Most of the time she was the fervid, grasping female as she trumpeted C'est Si Bon, Après Moi and The Heel. But at the end she often inserted a wistful and not very convincing twist-the manner of the little girl lost in the wicked world...