Word: boudoired
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...scarf from his chambers. Her husband informs her that he has remarried. The telephone conversations become more frenzied and the pace quickens to the hotel detective's hammering on the door. Climax is reached when she eschews an extremely poisonous snake (which she keeps, oddly enough, in her boudoir) - thereby relieving it of all reason for its presence - and hurls herself down 18 floors to the street...
This disappearance is merely Queen Mary's way of retiring to her boudoir. To be put through by telephone to the Queen Empress' boudoir one must give first a private number to the central operator, such as "K. Rose." If one does know the number and combination, one is put through instantly. Thus it happened, in the Pankhurst days of violent "Suffragets " that Queen Mary received the terrible shock of answering her boudoir telephone and having rudely shouted at her: "Are you for votes for women?" The Suffragets had wormed the secret code out of Miss Constance Selby, the Queen...
...magazine issued before the Civil war was the prim Godey's Lady's Book. On many a U. S. attic shelf, dust-covered copies still remain. Recently a passing decorating fancy has gutted them of their faded fashion plates, which are used to lend a touch of quaintness to boudoir walls, breakfast trays and lampshades...
...speaker's refusal to accede to President Hoover's wish for a joint committee of Congress to study enforcement administration (TIME, Jan. 20). New York's Representative Oliver, flaying Prohibition, declared the government's policy had "driven liquor from the bar to the boudoir, from the saloon to the salon, from hops to hips, from keg to kitchen." New York's Representative Sirovich, a physician, gave the House his annual demonstration of the effects of wood alcohol and other governmental denaturants on the human system. Members squirmed at his account of fatty degeneration...
...divorced people, but still effective enough to deserve smoother direction and a less squeaky recording. A lifeguard is the hinge of the plot. Having pulled Miss Chatterton out of the water, and believing his colleague's assurance that she admires him, he muscles his way into her boudoir one night and brings her trouble. Best shot: How the laughing lady, meeting at a party the lawyer who, acting for her husband, heckled her at the divorce hearing, uses her wits to embarrass and fascinate...