Word: high-strung
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Robinson, known as Sugar among his coffee-colored pals, is a jive artist, cocky, quick-witted, high-strung and footloose. A typical product of Harlem's sidewalks, he loves boogie-woogie, would rather dance than eat. "I can't get that boy to eat enough to keep a flea alive," moans Trainer Gainford. "He lives off hot dogs, ice cream, cake and dancing...
Bookmakers did not agree. The smooth-running Yankee machine may hit on all cylinders after four weeks of coasting; while the high-strung Dodgers, after a neck & neck race with the St. Louis Cardinals since the first week of the season-a race during which the Dodgers were in and out of the lead ten times-may be on the verge of collapse. So bookies last week quoted odds of 2-to-i on the Yankees to win the World Series for the fifth time in six years...
...last moment, high-strung Stylist Norman Hartnell decided that one of his mannequins, delightful Miss Ricki Richardson, who is expected to be a riot in South America, simply would not do for presentation to Their Majesties. Abruptly Mr. Hartnell substituted for Ricki Richardson a mannequin who has often modeled for Queen Elizabeth, majestic Daphne Osborn Jenkyn. Miss Jenkyn was introduced to Her Majesty as Miss Richardson. But The Queen called her "Jenkyn...
...three-Jacques, his older brother Antoine, their widowed father. Father Oscar is a pious, pompous, severe, uncomprehending and walled-in old man who hides in his heart a mortal fear of death, who snatches at straws of immortality by devoting himself to good works. Jacques is a rebellious, brooding, high-strung adolescent, destined to seek feverishly the meaning of his own life. Antoine is an egoistic, hard-minded doctor, devoted to his work and proud of being a man of action. Theirs and a half-dozen other lives wind around one another like raw nerves, in alternating anguish, ecstasy, dullness...
...Picture. As haughty, high-strung Tracy Lord, imperious daughter of a Main Line first family, Miss Hepburn comes close to playing herself straight. In a choleric moment, Father Seth Lord (John Halliday) sizes her up with: "You have a good mind, a pretty face, and a disciplined body that does what you tell it. You have everything it takes to make a lovely woman except the one essential-an understanding heart. Without it, you might just as well be made of bronze." The Philadelphia Story weighs the personality of this fortress of femininity in terms of her love life, which...