Word: fullblown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with a Lot to Explain. All the giggling girls, comics and doormen have been interviewed when Inspector Ellery comes at last to the temperamental diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns out to be Olga Baclanova, a fullblown Muscovite who in recent years has adorned the films. During one of the lulls in the investigation she appears, in a white satin gown which shimmers and hints, to sing with a somewhat uncertain falsetto a song called "You Love Me." Miss Baclanova tells Inspector Ellery: "I read men like books...