Word: coltish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week at Manhattan's Blue Angel, she cast timid eyes at the ceiling as if Major Bowes's cane were about to rip down from the attic. She squirmed onto a stool and let her coltish legs dangle, ankles napping. She twisted bony fingers through her hair and blessed her audience with a tired smile. Then she sang-and at the first note, her voice erased all the gawkiness of her presence onstage...
...turned up to show her classic calves for real, the Olympia music hall bulged with appreciative Frenchmen. With the old seductiveness, she caressed 18 songs a night, but drew the heartiest oo-la-las when, turned out in top hat, tails-and bare legs-she did a few coltish kicks. A grateful management held her over an extra week, and grateful admirers despoiled acres of rose gardens to pay her floral tribute...
...Logan cast her in her first movie. Tall Story, and also in her first Broadway play, There Was a Little Girl. The first reviews made her an actress forever. "The Boston critics said I was fragile," she remembers. "I'm strong as an ox. They said I was coltish, febrile, virginal, translucent-me! I realized I had created something that moved an audience...
Home again from a goodwill tour of the Far East that had won her a host of new friends (TIME, Dec. 15), Britain's coltish Princess Alexandra, 25, mourned the loss of an old one-the beloved teddy bear that she had mislaid sometime during a cruise down Burma's Irrawaddy River. This week, both the Burmese Army and the R.A.F. having confessed failure in massive teddy bear hunts, someone in the royal family was bound to be shopping for a Christmas replacement for the furry creature that had been Alexandra's pillow pal since childhood...
...banner of Britain's hallowed House of Marlborough. After divorcing Onassis and taking custody of their two children last year, Tina was badly injured in a skiing accident at St. Moritz and convalesced in Oxfordshire, where she enjoyed the solicitous attentions of the Marquess of Blandford, 35, coltish, polo-playing heir to the 10th Duke of Marlborough and cousin to Sir Winston Churchill. Last week, claiming what apparently is an ex-husband's privilege in the Riviera set, Onassis leaked the news that Tina and "Sonny" Blandford, himself a veteran of a previous marriage, would...