Word: fluffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Godfrey (Universal). Farce, like souffle, can't be warmed over. Back in 1936, when this piece of fluff came hot from Hollywood, it was crisp and light with the most expensive ingredients (William Powell and Carole Lombard). But a couple of decades have somehow taken the puff out of the stuff. At second serving it looks, as the French say of second servings, a little senile...
...midst of a toy-poodle vogue. The carefully trimmed bundles of fluff* have been dogs of fashion since the days of Queen Anne. In the U.S. poodles took a long time catching on. Only 50 of them were registered in the American Kennel Club by 1930. Not until the early 1950s did dog lovers in large numbers discover that poodles are as bright and companionable as they are susceptible to ostentatious hairdos. Last year there were 16,691 registered with the A.K.C...
...compliments, but there were many wealthy wolves on the prowl at Evelyn's door. At 16, she had adorned the cover of Collier's magazine in the famous Eternal Question portrait by Charles Dana Gibson, and she was known to thousands as the prettiest piece of fluff in the big city...
Sammy thinks he used to be a pretty brash fellow. "You know," he says. "I'd fluff [i.e., insult] somebody, even a good friend, and then think. 'Well, I'll make it up to him some day.' Then I had the accident, and I found I had friends...
...told to sink into the New York City underworld in order to write an exposé. Both the underworld and the police promptly mistake Reporter Dan Lewis for a mobster from Kansas City. After taking a brutal beating, he is put to bed by a brunette bit of fluff who soon climbs in with him. Dan becomes a bodyguard for a gambling czar, kills a man, takes over a bookie ring of his own. He all but forgets about reporting as he becomes infatuated with the world of crime -with its sense of power, its money that produces a kind...