Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with acting roles in the movies or on television. But in the meantime, they plan to go on pushing Topic A with unfettered enthusiasm. Says Abbey demurely: "I like the idea of men. I dig men.'' Says Sallie of one of her current crushes: "He's cute as a button; he's one of those people you want to walk...
...accidental parody of an early '30s movie musical, lacking only the traditional aerial views of chorus girls sprawling in living floral patterns. Jokes and Chrysler commercials sometimes had interchangeable parts. Cooed Barbara Nichols, playing a scrub girl in a carwash emporium: "Gee, isn't he [Raitt] cute! He can put his Imperial on my wash rack any time!" Jack Benny had the embarrassed air of one trapped in a cold Shower that could not be shut...
...interviewer is poisoned, the list of suspects is likely to run into considerable space. The puzzle yields to Pamela North, a young lady who has already solved a lively libraryful of murders. But her devotion to her sensitive-stomached Siamese cat and her giddy insistence that violence can be cute suggest that, for all her prowess as a detective, Mrs. North has a promising future as a likely victim...
Selling books has always been considered a quiet, genteel and vaguely intellectual profession. In recent years, though bookstore sales are up, all but the larger shops (which carry everything from phonograph records to cute paper napkins along with reading matter) have been harassed by competition from book clubs, high prices and complaints about inefficiency. Last week brought new evidence on the situation. To promote a forthcoming book-a second-rate soulsearcher on The Way We Live Now-Little, Brown sent out about 3,000 cards inviting opinions from booksellers, reviewers, radio-and newsmen on present-day living conditions. Some...
Around the Tepee. That Owen has made a mistake is apparent to all but Owen. At the drop of a skillet, Isabel quotes romantic tag lines from Sir Walter Scott, interspersed with bloodcurdlingly cute dialogue of her own. Sample: "You good husband. I bad wife. I keep ugh tepee." Around the ugh tepee gather subsidiary characters who have the power of total reverie, and pages may pass before a simple question gets a simple answer...