Word: distraughtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Astar capitalizes on a remarkable resemblance to Malenkov in a convincing, and not wholly unsympathetic portrayal of the Russian Delegate. As Mrs. Prescott, Katherine Cornell is a little hearty in her portrayal of the brilliant career-woman, but she clutches at furniture with appropriate intensity in her distraught moments...
Soon another Frenchman, the multimillionaire proprietor of Le Matin, Alfred Edwards, fell in love with her. The day Misia lunched at his home he left the table too distraught to eat. Edwards' wife berated Misia for upsetting the great man; rather than distress him, Mme. Edwards told her, Misia should become his mistress. Misia was indignant, but Edwards was persistent. For all the world like the heavy in a French melodrama, he lured Thadee Natanson into a disastrous business scheme, then offered to save him in exchange for Misia. The bargain was struck, Misia finally agreed, and after rapid...
Since Escapade is such an unsatisfying combination of silly plot and sledge hammer dialogue, the cast can be praised for just keeping the audience in the theatre until the final curtain. Roger Livesey and Ursula Jeans, as the distraught parents, are well together; his gruff and her grace are both engaging. Melville Cooper is excellent in the last scene when his stock, pompous headmaster reveals his individuality...
...precise, "no longer [say just] a 'pinch' of this and a 'dash' of that." Some papers provide their editors with elaborate test kitchens, but most food writers try their recipes at home, must be ready to answer the phone at all hours to rescue a distraught hostess trapped in mid-soufflé. Says Louisville Courier-Journal's Cissy Gregg: "They call me sometimes at 2 or 3 a.m. and say 'Look, I'm making such and such and this is where I am. Now what's next...
Artie is, he says, both older and wiser. With his balding head now shaved ascetically, he is far from the distraught young hero who deserted his bandstand and disappeared into Mexico 14 years ago, and far, he says, from the compulsive husband who married and divorced six times.* Part of the change, Artie thinks, came from thinking a lot of things out in a self-analytical autobiography, The Trouble With Cinderella, which he wrote on his dairy farm at Pine Plains, N.Y. In the book, he described his zooming rise from Manhattan's Lower East Side...