Word: glyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ELINOR GLYN (348 pp.)-Anthony Glyn-Doubleday...
...book which added "It" to the vocabulary of the '20s enthralled readers on two continents and enthroned Elinor Glyn as the sultriest literary siren of the pre-Kinsey age. Even more famous, of course, was Three Weeks, a swoonmaking elixir that Elinor uncorked in 1907. Three Weeks, written in six, eventually sold some 5,000,000 copies, and featured a wildly romantic Balkan queen who greeted her lover from a reclining position on a tiger skin with a red rose between her teeth. The book was boycotted in Boston, blasted from pulpits, and celebrated in an anonymous ditty...
Conversation (Sat. 8p.m., NBC). Good talk, with Jacques Barzun, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Dr. Glyn Daniel, Clifton Fadiman...
...Anybody Seen My Gal is set in what is referred to as the Roaring Twenties, an era when, to judge from this picture, flappers in short skirts and college men in raccoon coats did little else but pour down bathtub gin, read Elinor Glyn's It, dance the Charleston, and indulge in such bon mots as "hot diggity," "the cat's meow" and "skiddoo." The result is a thoroughly lightweight but agreeably lighthearted little taffy pull in Technicolor. Surrounding Multimillionaire Coburn are a number of pleasant young people, including Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Gigi Perreau and an enthusiastic...
...Checking. The Glyn, Mills bank in London, England last week began checking signatures on bank checks via television. During World War II the bank's records were moved to Osterley Park, ten miles outside London; the bank does not now have enough room in London to move all the records back. So to check a signature or any record, a clerk in Osterley Park simply holds the original in front of a TV camera and it appears on a small screen on the desk of a bank official in London...