Word: lemons
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When, out of the sun at noon, sometimes she stole down over the rocks and past the cliff-edge, down to the deep gully where the lemons hung in cool eternal shadow; and in the silence slipped off her wrapper to wash herself quickly at one of the deep, clear green basins, she would notice, in the bare green twilight, under the lemon leaves, that all her body was rosy, rosy and turning to gold ... And she would rub a little olive oil in her skin, and wander a moment in the dark underworld of the lemons ... laughing to herself...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). The Lemon Drop Kid, with Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell...
...because the lines "would have made my marriage look ridiculous"), Sanders took the afternoon off to pack his bags and leave his Hollywood home. Said he: "My wife asked me to get out, and I am in the process of doing so. I have been discarded like a squeezed lemon." For reporters covering the spat, Zsa Zsa (rhymes with maharajah) had a simple statement: "A woman has the right to quarrel with her husband in the afternoon because it is so much fun to make up in the evening...
...association or businessman is stopped when it comes to naming a queen after a product, no matter how silly the result. When one lemon-juice packing company picked a miss, it hardly thought twice before it bestowed the second-most unflattering title of the year: "Miss Realemon...
...bout of economic unpleasantness. Clement Attlee, if he expects to lose, has exercised the Prime Minister's privilege of putting the fruit for which Churchill has been reaching into the old man's hands at the precise moment when it is turning into the worst kind of lemon. Neither side apparently sees a way to cope with the crisis except by blood, sweat and tears, which in peacetime terms mean regimentation, restriction and austerity...