Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very first night, he learned one thing: Boy Scouts seldom look like the idealized picture of Boy Scouts. "I had imagined that they would have eager, alert, likable faces-even noble or cute ones, similar to those I had seen in newspaper photos of Boy Scouts handing placards to the mayor or demonstrating bandages in City Park. Such types appeared to be in very short supply in this troop." Giggling and jiggling among themselves, they scarcely listened to his inaugural address ("Look at Big Shot," whispered one). Nor did they take his attempts at umpiring any more seriously ("That...
...thoughtful horse player, who talks like this: "You take a real ugly bum . . . with a face a monkey would be ashamed of. Let him get a shave and a haircut and meet a broad. What's the first thing the broad says to him, she says you look cute tonight . . . I admit I look like a kangaroo . . . But every broad I take out tells me I'm cute. Soon as a dame says that, I know I can't trust...
...owners to keep their pets on a leash or shut up in yards of homes. On its back page the same day, the Post ran a Hatlo cartoon showing a saber-toothed dog tearing the pants off "Mailman McMucilage." As dogs do every time, the man-eater struck a "cute 1'il WoozyOzzums" pose when the postal inspector arrived to investigate McMucilage's complaint. Nevertheless, the harm was done. Hatlo had sabotaged the paper's campaign...
...infantryman, helping outmaneuver the Reds in Korea in 1950. Colonel Mitchum knocks out a Communist supply route and turns the U.S. defensive into an offensive on the eve of the Inchon invasion. As a result, he is promoted to general and wins the love of Ann Blyth. a cute member of a U.N. health & sanitation team in Korea...
...returned to the U.S. with far more knowledge of his craft than Gauguin could boast. He painted to please his customers, in the accepted tradition of sentimental realism. Tobacco-juice brown was his favorite hue. A particularly crabbed critic once remarked that Johnson's best work "ranges from cute to nice," but it did please the customers. Johnson died famous in 1906, and descended at once into obscurity...