Word: jezebelling
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...Young Jezebel. She likes to run around her Manhattan hotel suite or "Windows," her twelve-room house in Bedford Village, N.Y., with no clothes on, and has to be prompted by friends when callers arrive. She also enjoys the bug-eyed shock on the faces of strangers when she pretends to be a dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked...
...call on an old Scottish woman named Mrs. Bunce, who told fortunes in a Manhattan brownstone. Mrs. Bunce's routine was to open a Bible and poke a needle into it for an omen. One year, probing for Tallulah's future, the needle stuck on the name Jezebel. "Oh, that's terrible," said Estelle. "Jezebel was thrown to the dogs." "Yes," throbbed Tallulah, "but first she rode with kings and princes...
...home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab and his wicked wife Jezebel. Last week in Memphis, 8,000 Southern Baptists heard their new president preach it again-for the 316th time...
...much like the batting form of Waner, of the Pittsburgh Pirates. . . . He is a right-hand hitter." And for the thousands of women whose interest in the Pirates is small, Runyon has other generous helpings to spoon out. "Mrs. Snyder," he notes, "the woman who has been called a Jezebel [came] stepping along briskly in her patent-leather pumps. . . . She has a good figure. . . and I thought she carried her clothes off rather smartly. . . . Her eyes are blue-green, and as chilly looking as an ice-cream cone...
Drivin' Woman reads like an inspired high-school prize composition packed with cinematic moments. It revolves about a character who may turn out to be the most satisfying heroine since Scarlett O'Hara. America Moncure catches the womanly public coming & going: she is at once a Jezebel, a faithful wife, a W.C.T.U.-pledgee, a patrician, a pauper, a farmer, a mother of ingrate children sired by a worthless husband, a passionate creature, an unsatisfied creature, a high-grade businesswoman. Her hair is "glossy as a fresh-shucked chestnut," and even in old age her "crooked little smile" only...