Word: cinderella
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...Niederzwehren, from peasants and villagers, from family friends and old nursemaids, from medieval manuscripts and ancient collections, the Grimm brothers gleaned the vast leavings of literature that had been blown into medieval Germany over the centuries by the winds of Hindu mythology, Irish balladry, Gothic minstrelsy. But today Cinderella, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Tom Thumb, et al. have become so much a part of western folklore that the Brothers Grimm's labors in reviving them have been largely forgotten, watered-down, or vilified...
...bright paint which stains each character in the true color of his wickedness. In the original Grimm, here reproduced, stepmothers are so hardhearted that the reader can have no sympathy with them whatever. The Queen in Snow White actually eats the supposed liver and lungs of her hated stepdaughter. Cinderella's stepmother will not acquiesce in her ugly daughters' loss of a throne merely because their feet are outsize. With the practical observation that "when you are a Queen you will have no more need to go on foot," she casually lops off a toe or a heel...
...immediate. Her Government announced that it would not participate in further meetings of the Pan American Union so long as it continued to "disregard Argentine rights." Neither would it send a voteless, unequal delegate to the Mexico City conference. "Argentina," said a spokesman, "does not intend to play Cinderella in Mexico or elsewhere...
Irene Bordoni, super-Frenchy musicomedy veteran (Hitchy Koo, Little Miss Bluebeard, Naughty Cinderella), was the new chanteuse of Manhattan's La Vie Parisienne nightclub. The fiftyish, Corsica-born brunette sang favorites new & old (old favorites: If You Could Care for Me, Let's Do It, Do it Again), described her hairdo as the American Push-"Poosh all my hair on a other side...
...have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor for it was insistent. Then for three-quarters of an hour Hitch held a dozen grown men breathless, waiting for the double-entendre, while he told the story of Cinderella -straight...