Word: dearly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though, seem to be aimed at the prom set. Lavoris' pitchwoman is "Fran," a hip Ann Landers-type columnist, fielding readers' problems. Her inevitable solution: "Use Lavoris, lover boy. You'll sweeten up those sour dates." How did she guess? "Don't think your dear old Aunt Fran doesn't know which way the wind blows." Colgate 100 has similar advice to the breathlorn. The date is over, and Tom is depositing Betty at her door. She melts into a coy pucker only to be offered [gasp!] a handshake, as Tom about-faces...
...Kill Uncle. "You're a charming child, Barnaby," says dear old Uncle as he smiles (or is he merely showing his teeth?) at his twelve-year-old orphan nephew. "But five million dollars charming, you're not." What Uncle means to say in his usual genial way is that since he stands to inherit Barnaby's estate if Barnaby should have a fatal accident, he intends to make sure that Barnaby has a fatal accident-fast...
...well as motive. On the isolated Caribbean islet where he and Barnaby (Pat Cardi) are spending a vacation, there are only four other people: a policeman, a fisherman, a divorcee and a 13-year-old girl named Chrissie (Mary Badham). Barnaby tries desperately to make them all understand that dear old Uncle really means to do him in, but only the little girl believes him. "Tell you what," she burbles brightly. "Let's kill Uncle first...
...Ireland from 1945 to 1959, whose pixyish personality and dandy dress suited him well for his ceremonial office, particularly on a two-week visit to the U.S. in 1959, when he blarneyed all the boyos and bussed all the colleens, saying to his wife "Look at this one, dear, isn't she grand?"; after a long illness; in Dublin...
...Study in Terror. "Hmph, my dear Watson," hmphs Sherlock Holmes, shooting his cuffs gracefully as he performs yet another criminological miracle. "It's well known that I am indestructible...