Word: gorgeousity
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Soon "the silver basket in the vestibule of the Tower house contained the cards of Sylvester Bull, Templeton Snelling, and Ward McAllister, besides a hundred others." Mrs. Astor herself, dressed as Queen Elizabeth, attended the gorgeous Tower costume ball. Also present at the ball was rascally Terry, who had gate-crashed, disguised as a Mexican caballero. Simeon shot Terry dead. Cried little Lucy: "Why did papa hurt my real papa...
...Shelley Mydans' admirers, none tops the hard-bitten G.I. editor of the Mid-pacifican, who wrote, on Dec. 2, 1944: "Shelley Smith Mydans, the Pacific's first gorgeous war correspondent, is here. . . . (She) cannot be summed up in a sentence, but a sentence can report that she's an able newspaperwoman who has been more places than a globetrotter, has had more adventures than a soldier of fortune, knows more about the Japs than most military commanders, and, at 29, is better to look at than 75% of the movie stars...
...weather is gorgeous and I, mistress of Germany's and the world's greatest man, have to sit at home and look at it through a window...
...Ilse Schmidt, gorgeous 19-year-old brunette with a figure designed to make men drool, talked with this reporter on one of the bathing piers. Her answer on the whole subject of fraternization...
Biographer Adams, who is an old chum of Woollcott's and a fellow alumnus of Hamilton College as well as a practiced journalist and storyteller (Revelry; The Gorgeous Hussy; It Happened One Night), deals both gently and sharply with a personality who, outside politics and crooning, may quite possibly have stirred up more love and loathing than any U.S. contemporary...