Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pagan Love Song (MGM) casts Esther Williams adrift in the shallows of a musicomedy set in Tahiti (and filmed on Hawaiian locations). Esther plays a well-to-do Tahitian half-caste who meets, loses and finally gets a plantation heir (Howard Keel) newly arrived from Ohio. In the full flush of health, she glows in almost every tint of the Technicolor spectrum, swims not only on the water and under it but also (in a dream sequence) in the sky. In lieu of comedy, Actress Williams and Singer Keel laugh with unconvincing gaiety on the flimsiest excuse. The score consists...
With the Hungnam evacuation completed, tacticians looked back on the battle -the U.S. breakout from the Changjin trap, the fighting retreat to the sea, and the successful evacuation-to assess the showing made by the Chinese, who had looked so overwhelming in the first flush of their massive offensive. The assessment was that in northeast Korea, Mao's men had made a very poor showing indeed...
...Went full speed ahead on plans for a new flush-deck aircraft carrier, smaller than the 65,000-ton supercarrier United States, which was shelved during Economizer Louis Johnson's regime, but larger than anything now in service and capable of launching atomic bombers...
...first flush of success after the publication of This Side of Paradise, 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald returned to Princeton one day in 1920 for a banquet of former editors of the Nassau Lit. There, as usual, he began to drink, crowned Dean Christian Gauss with a laurel wreath and got so drunk that Cottage Club suspended him. "For seven years," wrote Fitzgerald later, "I didn't go to Princeton. Then a magazine asked me to write an article about it and when I started to write it, I found I really loved the place...
...strolling player-or was he a wandering minstrel, or even a poet?-pitched his tent on Broadway last week. The show he proceeded to put on-The Lady's Not for Burning (see above)-made the very neon signs flush with youthful colors; the street's familiar smells of cheap popcorn and theatrical ham were overblown with a strangely innocent perfume. In the midst of the prosaic November which for decades has frozen the English-speaking stage, poetic roses were all at once in bloom...