Word: botches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Writers, Publishers, Republishers, and those concerned. All Publications, Readers, Sympathizers, Harmonizers, Believers, Critics, Followers, Preachers and Priests, as well as Nations and others that coincide with those lies published in that book . . . They are cursed with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with the sword . . . They shall be smitten with botch of Egypt, with fire, with burning, with emerods, with madness and blindness and heart trouble...
...squad has never been able to save a Harvard man who had decided to become a late Harvard man. "At least it's nice to be able to say," remarks Touchette, an avid Harvard booster and member of the Band, "that Harvard men do a professional job, and never botch...
Rosemary always sounds the way the pretty girls next door ought to sound. In the most sentimental of her hit records, Half as Much, her voice has an easy smoothness, an unsophisticated warmth. As she bounces along in Botch-a-Me, she adopts the tone of an earthy Italian mama, but her smile sings through as she gets the kiss she asks for. In Too Old to Cut the Mustard, a bit of hillbilly horseplay, she changes pace completely and sings raucous country alto to Marlene Dietrich's improbable baritone...
...Botch-a-me (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). Another piece of bumptiousness ("botch-a-me" is Tin-Pan-Alley Italian for "kiss me") from the girl who made Come On-a My House a limited national delirium last summer. No better than most sequels...
...wenching to eat her beetle puddings under the Weird Oak Tree. She gave her mistress' daughter the dread effigy of St. Uncumber-to whom unwilling wives prayed that he uncumber them of their mates-and when the poor husband failed to die, cast on him the botch of leprosy. She died at last in the lord's dungeons, suffocating herself by packing her nose with earth and swallowing her lips...