Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frequently seem as conventional and naive as the old Dorothy Lamour adventures on enchanted Pacific isles. What saps the movie's authenticity even more, and drains its big scenes of any emotional force, is Debra Paget. Her playing of the native girl never resembles anything but a cute trick in a bathing beauty contest at Hollywood High...
After the big snow I located my set of wheels by the red plastic tip on the antennae which barely protruded from the drifts. But when I approached it I saw that the police had tunneled in their cute way to the right windshield wiper. Adding insult to injury they tied the tag to the rubber part of the wiper with a knot any boatswain would have admired. It defied knives and fingernails. Finally, I stripped it off and the rubber left the wiper like a peel leaving a banana...
...other L.I.U. players identified as "X" and "Y," made a deal to rig the L.I.U.-Duquesne game. The players decided to ask for $5,000-$1 ,000 apiece. But after the game, four of them held a little powwow without "X." "The boys," said Hogan, "were working out a cute one on 'X' ": Gard, Miller, Lipman and "Y" were to take $1,100 apiece and give "X" only...
...This cute doublecross might well have worked, Hogan thought, if player "Y," assigned to pick up the money from the fixer, hadn't been even cuter. He told his chums, said Hogan, that he didn't have the money-"Yes, I got the $5,000 but I gave it back." After a long hassle, Lipman managed to get $300 instead of the $1,100 he thought was coming...
...addition to all these performers, there are also 15 children of various ages and sizes. Perhaps they are cute. But their presence on the stage indicates that Hammerstein is resorting to the depths of sentimental attraction. It does not take much talent, nor is it particularly clever, to get a response from an audience by using large numbers of cute kids. It seems as if the two children who sang "Dites-Moi" in "south Pacific" were fruitful, and multiplied...