Word: cupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purveyor of Cupid's Breath (and 300 other pretty-smelling beauty products) is in racing for the sport, but she has made a business of it. Last year she plunked down a staggering $315.000 for ten fancy-bred yearlings; her two-year-olds copped just about every big stake for horses their age. She finished up the season as the nation's top money winner-with earnings of $589,170-even though she objected to her "little darlings" wearing blinkers because they didn't look pretty, and forbade jockeys to whip the darlings during a race...
Many a paunchy, jowly citizen of U.S. suburbia, when he thinks of his youth, remembers Alice Prin. For Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank...
...list. Going at $16,500 are two Carravaggios, Profane Love and David with Goliath's Head; Gauguin's The Green Man, and Bronzino's Eleanor of Aragon. Pieter Breughel's Amsterdam under the Snow is priced at $14,850; Bronzino's Venus and Cupid at $13,750; Antonio Moro's Portrait of a Man and a Manet still life, Flowers and Fruit, at $11,000 each...
Wearily, Mr. Trammell said that he, representing RCA Victor, and CBS (Columbia Records) were now ready to sign. His cupid's face lit with cupidity, Little Caesar said he would go to New York immediately. He suggested, with spider-like politeness, that Mr. Trammell come to his office...
...promising start, Playwright Akins soon badly bogs down. In terms of plot, she has little more to offer than that Karl Marx is no match for Dan Cupid. In terms of comedy, she can only let her flighty, bird-brained heroine chatter on for three long acts. Now & then the chatter is funny-"Everybody needs money these days, even the poor"; perhaps an act of it is fun. After that, it is pretty much an assault upon the eardrums...