Word: fume
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...several scenes with absolute poetic Tightness: by retarding to slow motion Beauty's terror-struck sprint through the Beast's castle, Cocteau conveys every decibel of the shriek she cannot release. There is also plenty of surreal wit: the Beast's eyes, ears, nose and fingernails fume when the fires of lust blaze up in him; and Beauty's tears turn to diamonds on her cheeks...
...Navy, temporarily thrown off its "magic carpet" schedule by the need for repairs, knew that more storms could be expected in the next three months. Thousands of waiting G.I.s might fume, but there was nothing the Navy could do about the raging...
France's women (including Mme. Pleven, a smoker), fierce in their newly won political freedom, started to fight for social liberties as well. Last week, five weeks before the general elections, M. Pleven surrendered, officially admitted la femme qui fume into French civilization: starting December, women will receive tobacco rations...
...would have gone into a new kitchen.... History felt her broom." She was illiterate, clean and piously Lutheran. Purchased for a ruble (approximately 50?) from the Russian corporal who first claimed her as a prisoner, the sturdy Lithuanian entered the household of Marshal Sheremetiev without fuss or fume. She obediently went to bed with him and next day set about tidying his house...
Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt, who is never out of the news-or hot water-very long, was in both last week. Splenetic Columnist Westbrook Pegler, an old Roosevelt-hater, pulled the cork on a long bottled-up story. There was much of Pegler foam & fume; there was also a muddy brew...