Word: flirting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nights on the ad account of a "Mr. Fraser," who happens to be Mrs. Fraser (Louise Allbritton) and an old flame at that. This not improbable situation gets out of hand when the wife (Madeleine Carroll) plans to test her spouse's jealousy. She hires an actor to flirt with her at a nightclub; the actor's agent tips off the husband in advance; an unsuspecting tobacco tycoon (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) sits at the wrong table...
...whose language is strictly from New Jersey, tries to reassure, and flirt with, a half-grown Sicilian girl who knows no English. A German sniper kills them both. 2) A Neapolitan street boy steals the shoes off a drunken Negro soldier. When the Negro spots him later, and sees a little of the neolithic life of Naples' poorest people, he loses interest in his shoes, and learns that U.S. Negroes are not the only unlucky people on earth. 3) A Roman girl, turned prostitute, picks up a besotted soldier, and slowly comes to recognize...
...Flirt. In Prague, a 19-year-old youth, arrested for throwing a bottle that hit a passing girl on the head, explained: "I just wanted to get acquainted with...
...Speech, Eye for Plot. Alice Adams was a Midwest neighborhood story. It presented a girl in a town like Indianapolis, a daydreaming flirt, in a struggle with family failure, local snobbery and a doomed love affair. Nothing more; but anyone could see that it was "well written," meaning that the writer had a pleased ear for U.S. speech; an effortless way of evoking familiar things "[the milkman's horse] casually shifted weight with a clink of steel shoes on the worn brick pavement of the street, and then heartily shook himself in his harness, perhaps to dislodge...
Impatient at brides who flirt with fortune by arriving at his church as much as twenty minutes late, the Rev. Brian Purefoy last week upped his organist's fees from two to four guineas. Prompt brides will get a two guinea refund...