Word: bored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl friend. Marie-Thérèse Goyenetch, 22, nicknamed "Maïté." One day, as Maïté was leaving her small hotel near the Etoile, a man thrust a card into her hand, said: "There's money in it for you." The card bore the telephone number of Jean Lacaze, Dominique's brother...
...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (20th Century-Fox), a British western shot in Spain, was apparently expected to convey the satiric notion that when Hollywood reaches for the six-shooter it usually produces something of a large bore. But somehow what comes across is the wistful and delightfully absurd idea that a good many apparently tame Englishmen secretly like to fancy themselves racketing around the Wild West like pure cussedness in cowpants, blasting the bepluribus out of silver dollars at 30 paces and generally keeping the beastly natives in their place...
...fact it was. The truth is, General Montgomery did not make an inspection tour of North Africa in 1944; he was much too busy in England. The trip was actually made by Lieut. M.E. Clifton James of the Royal Army Pay Corps, a small-time character actor who bore such a staggering resemblance to Monty and mimicked him so well that not a man in North Africa twigged the substitution-not even Monty's onetime batman...
...geisha is not now and never has been for the young man or for American tourists; she is for the Japanese businessman, politician, professional man or artist who has made or inherited his name and fortune. Possibly the Japanese businessman who said, ''Frankly . . . they have become a bore" was referring to geisha parties for foreign tourists, rather than to geisha...
...highly disorganized Adolph's feckless bachelorhood-has flawed a 20-year collaboration. "If I weren't stuck with her as my partner," Adolph once wrote in tribute to Betty, "I could be off on my own and free to starve to death-or worse yet, free to bore myself to death...