Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just as fraudulent, in their own way, as the crooks. The culprits team up in Victorian London, where one is the perfect lady's maid (Greer Garson), the other a scampish, penniless aristocrat (Michael Wilding). Moving on to gullible San Francisco, where wealthy climbers are eager to fawn on English nobility, the maid passes for a marchioness and the blue blood for the perfect butler. Their plans go awry, and the comedy shifts from drawing room to bedroom, when Lady Greer arouses the ardor of a hot-blooded California aristocrat (Fernando Lamas) at a weekend party...
...bells of the Kremlin tolled the May Day hour (10 a.m.) as Joseph Stalin, in fawn uniform and chipper mood, stood on Lenin's marble tomb to take the adulation of a million marchers. His son, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, flew above Red Square in the van of the mightiest Soviet air show; there were 64 four-engined bombers where last November there had been 22. "Comrades," orated Chief of Staff General S. M. Shtemenko, on the rostrum beside Stalin, "a crisis is approaching in capitalist countries...
...Vardis Fisher's Children of God (1939), a historical novel about Mormonism, and Fawn McKay Brodie's No Man Knows My History (1945), a biography of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith. They attribute Prophet Smith's visions to his "imagination" instead of divine inspiration, and picture the early days of the church as filled with sexuality and violence...