Word: coquettishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miss this chance-food and tombs on stage together." Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads. Among huge fish, crawling monsters and enormous yellow butterflies, danced a coquettish, bell-shaped madonna. Exulted Dali: "I have never done anything so absolutely my own as this...
Another excellent scene: an asylum dance. On one side of the hall the women are lined up, coquettish in spite of their drabness; on the other side are the slicked-down men with little bouquets and candy boxes in their hands. To the stringy tune of a bored band, the partners hop and skip through their dance, distorting it like forlorn children at dancing school. The scene is only slightly harmed by an overlong, over-sentimental group singing of Going Home, timed with the heroine's own realization that she is indeed going home...
...silent as a chess player. (His one relaxation, in fact, is chess; his fellow Army men well know the Shaposhnikov end game.) He is personally cold and reticent, and he stays out of the political light. He is modest to the brink of affectation; his books are almost coquettish: "Our present immature work. ... If the magnanimous reader will do us the great honor of further following our reasoning. . . ." This silence and super-modesty have saved his political head time & again...
...natural, of course, that deadpanned John Reynolds (Mr. Wayne), a Yankee Attorney hired by the anti-lottery league to smash the racket, should fall in love with coquettish Julie (Ona Munson), Rebel daughter of goateed General Mirbeau (Henry Stephenson), owner of the lottery. When sudden death overtakes the General and promotes his daughter to head of the lottery, Buster Reynolds is confronted with the painful problem of destroying his light-o-love's source of income without losing her affection...