Word: jadedly
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...impoverished mother years before. The highway, like the highways of Fielding or Smollett, yields a complete novelist's kit of cutpurses and murderers, madmen and saints. The hero is set upon by mastiffs, trampled to insensibility by a mob, and nearly deprived of his virginity by a jade. He meets a cold-eyed man accompanied by a pox-pitted villain named Scabbo; the two of them pursue him so murderously through the book that he is at one point forced to tear off Scabbo's right hand with a pair of tongs in pure self-defense. He winds...
...whistle, and squirm. Childlike smiles and bulging blouses suggested an irresistible, infantile heaven. But those were only growth pains. Now that the country has matured into world leadership, American men go to the movies to see not girls but women. This has even become the epoch of the opulent jade, all the Melina Mercouris and Jeanne Moreaus, whose frank stares suggest a fully ripened hell and provoke an uncontrollable urge to total ruin...
Austria's Romy Schneider wants to be a jade too. She is only 24. She has a neat little nose, powder-blue eyes, and a pixy grin. She is real real cute. "God, I hate that word," she says. For years, she was repeatedly cast in German films more or less as Shirley Tempelhof, the cardboard princess. Determinedly, she has changed all that. Last week in London, dressed in tights and high black stockings, she began work in Carl Foreman's The Victors as a cabaret violinist turned whore, playfully kicking up her heels and pulling her tights...
...keeps his pants pockets full of enough odds and ends to cover a variety-store counter, he asked the Senator to empty the contents on the spot. Dirksen complied: a pocket knife, a St. Christopher medal, an empty leather pillbox, a cold sniffer, an odd-shaped piece of rough jade, a magnifying reading glass, a 1955 medal of the Kewanee. Ill., Masonic Lodge, a silver dollar money clip, two heavily burdened key rings, and a quarter...
Eggs with Hens Inside. He produced everything from an image of Buddha in nephrite (a form of jade) for the King of Siam to many of the great gold and silver plates on which the major towns of Russia offered their symbolic tribute of bread and salt to the Czar. But his major works were small and intimate. One day, Czar Alexander III asked him to do something special as an Easter present for the Czarina. Fabergé produced an enameled egg so pleasing that giving jeweled eggs became an Easter custom in the royal family. Each of the eggs...