Word: kittenishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gives the pulse and brain a good 127-minute rest. It is chiefly a lavish Technicolor showcase for the considerable singing talents of a freshfaced young actress named Jane Powell. Jane plays the adolescent daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico (Walter Pidgeon). The plot relentlessly examines her kittenish romance with the British ambassador's young son (Roddy McDowall) and her schoolgirl crush on celebrated Pianist Jose Iturbi ( played by Jose Iturbi). Between times there are songs by Jane, songs by Ilona Massey (father Pidgeon's romantic interest), piano selections by Iturbi and rumbas led by Xavier Cugat...
Harold L. ("Terrible-Tempered") Ickes, asked for the umpteenth time if he expected to quit his Interior Secretaryship soon, tried a kittenish answer for a change: "That cat has more than nine lives. . . . Besides, I don't like cats...
...hours she sat in her corner, staring silently into space, her pupils dilated, her heart pounding, her breathing labored. She shunned her old friends, refused to eat for days at a time. Occasionally she became agitated or infantile and kittenish. But often she just sat, in a catatonic stupor, brooding and lonely, quiet...
...With cheerful optimism our little Columbus descended into the vast uncharted waste-then stopped, stepped, slipped and slid"). It kids the stylized exaggerations of Big Jim, a notable heavy, by referring to him as "the noble type. . . . Oh, how he loved to suffer"; it anticipates Georgia's atrocious, kittenish, dated antics by introducing her to the audience with the single expletive: "Georgia...
From the underwear industry last week came a kittenish echo of Lieut. General Ben Lear's Memphis Incident. Announced by Blue Swan Mills (manufacturers of Minnikins, Frillikins, Smoothikins, many anotherkins) was the Panty-of-the-Month for December. It will be made of olive-drab cotton and rayon, archly embroidered (on the left hip) "Yoo-Hoo." Its inevitable name: Yoo-Hooikins...