Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Letter from Missolonghi. "I feel," wrote Byron's better self, "and I feel it bitterly, that a man should not consume his life at the side and on the bosom of a woman, and a stranger . . . But I have neither the strength of mind to break my chain, nor the insensibility which would deaden its weight...
...could say one thing of all the musical greats he had known: "Every one of them was a showman." Polish Soprano Marcella Sembrich always meticulously arranged her own bouquets of flowers before concert time, then, when they were presented to her at intermission, gathered them to her ample bosom with expressions of pleased surprise. No performer likes listeners to walk out early, but Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski once set something of a Carnegie Hall record for displeasure. Spotting a woman leaving while he was playing, he left the piano in midphrase, dashed through the wings and into the corridor after...
...struck the fatal blow, Goff was convicted on the charge of "aggravated assault." Even with the lighter charge, he could have drawn a prison term of five years, but the court was lenient. Why did Goff get off so lightly? "That information," said a legal officer, "is in the bosom of the court...
...What were men made of, that they could gaze at one girl with their souls in their eyes one moment-and turn as he was turning now, to the call of a blonde trollop?" Sabrina Home's bosom (a prominent feature of this novel) was agitated by this question whenever she saw Sir John Templar, in a bedroom across the street, "take a running jump and land ploof" alongside Molly Quin, his doxy. To make matters worse, Sabrina was married to old Sir William Wakefield, "a spent candle." How, Sabrina wondered, could she escape from Sir William and join...
Climaxing "Adolph Zukor Day" was a $75,000 dinner for 1,000-odd guests at Hollywood's Palladium. Songstress Rosemary Clooney sang (a microphone concealed in the bosom of her dress) Happy Birthday to You; William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd rode into the ballroom astride Topper to shout "Happy Birthday, Mr. Zukor!"; Oldtimer Mary Pickford made a teary speech and Oldtimer Mae Murray did a scampering dance...