Word: itches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was one big consolation among a few friendlier notices. To cover the show for his own column, Crosby commandeered his friend, Playwright George (The Seven Year Itch) Axelrod, who agreed in advance to pull no punches. Axelrod came through manfully. He liked Crosby's "gently, wryly perceptive style...
...three TV networks for a grand total of 8½ hours a week, spieling and laughing through a mixture of variety shows, bullfight commentaries, interview and quiz programs, and assorted sports shows. Paco almost never rehearses, believes in doing or saying on-screen what comes naturally ("When I itch, I scratch"), somehow has parlayed a combination of glibness, amiability and sports knowledge into nationwide fame and fortune. (Paco reports his income as $60,000 a year, five times the salary of Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines...
Tanner bottles his bestselling fizz under polypseudonymous labels. As Patrick Dennis he created the madwoman of Beekman Place, Auntie Mame. As Virginia Rowans he examined The Loving Couple and its five-year itch. Again as Dennis, he wrote (with Barbara Hooton) Guestward Ho!, the saddle-slipping saga of a Manhattan couple turned dude-ranch managers. On the assumption that the public is now hopelessly Tanner-Dennis-Rowans-addicted, his publishers are currently offering two seasonal pick-me-ups, one a reissue entitled House Party (originally published in 1954) and the other a collaboration with Dorothy (The Crystal Boat) Erskine called...
...From the Latin prurire, to itch...
Beards are fun, but they itch. An example of a less personal possession with an enduring European flavor is the motor scooter. Vespas and Lambrettas are noisily rampant on the streets of Rome and Venice, and so they are arriving in Cambridge in ever-increasing numbers. They not only attract attention, but impart that desirable note of devil-may-care hardiness when they come abreast complacent, insulated Buicks on Mass...