Word: boudoired
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After the liberation, drab life closed in again, and he started taking eubine, a morphine derivative. It increased his boudoir prowess. His girl, Jeanne, lived with her family and saw him only on weekends. So at first he took the stuff only when he was with Jeanne. Then he began doping during the week. Soon he was forging doctors' prescriptions for eubine in tremendous quantities...
...little gang of 16 men were "all educated and professed Christians." John, 75, had dispatched to the spirit world a 60-year-old shoemaker, had made "medicine" from the head, heart, lungs. In Basutoland such a medicine is believed to increase a chief's prowess in battle, boudoir, and law courts. Clearly, it had not worked for John...
...medieval tapestries best. He admired their storybook symbolism, straightforward drawing and economical restriction to blacks, reds and yellows. At Aubusson, Beauvais and the world-famous Gobelin tapestry works in Paris, descendants of the medieval masters still labored. But their models were mostly second-rate Italian engravings and 18th Century boudoir muralists like Boucher and Fragonard. Twentieth Century tapestries used as many as 14,000 different hues of thread, took years to finish. But medieval ones, designed to be "frescoes in wool," used as few as 17 hues and were far simpler to weave...
Amber got kicked out of bed. After 38 days of exposure (at $10,000 a day), the multimillion-dollar boudoir epic looked like a bust to Darryl Zanuck, who decided to throw it all away and try again, later. Blonde little Peggy Cummins, British actress who had been chosen to play the lead, was apparently out of a job. But she got another. After all that buildup as a Restoration pillow-fighter she was suddenly transferred to Bob, Son of Battle-something wholesome about a sheep...
Jacques Deval, 54, French dramatizer of drawing-room gaieties and boudoir confusions (Her Cardboard Lover, Tovarich, Boudoir), was sued for "adequate" separate maintenance in Manhattan by Actress-Wife Else Argall, 30. She charged that he got his boudoirs confused, had told her his gaieties were "necessary in order to stimulate his creative talents as a writer...