Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lest accusations of normality fall about her column-conscious ears, deep-breathing Cinemactress Jayne Mansfield revealed the joys of a California Christmas. Her gift, from Muscleman Mickey Hargitay: a finny new pink Cadillac. Jayne's present to Mickey: a red and white Christmas stocking, bulged out with 9 Ibs. 9½ oz. of their newborn (Dec. 21) son Miklos...
...tidy little gardens of verse periodically raked up by Poetot Minou Drouet have nurtured some singularly muse-smitten responses: by the latest count, the lady's Christmas mail included some 20 proposals of marriage. Lest any readers be tormented by life imitating Lolita, the daily Paris-Journal solemnly presented reassurance: petite Minou, 11, has rejected her suitors...
...stoke their own furnace and chauffeur their limousines. The diplomats' ladies now do their own scrubbing, cooking and marketing. At first the Pakistani embassy gallantly offered to drive the Dutch children to the foreign colony's school, but after taking the youngsters once, retracted the offer lest it lose its own Chinese drivers. At another embassy a Chinese cook refused to bake a supply of cookies after he learned that a Dutchman was coming to dinner. Fearing that they too might get the treatment, foreign diplomats now tend to avoid the Dutch mission, which has become the loneliest...
Critic and columnist, bartender and barfly last week got a startling reminder of A Night to Remember. Lest anyone miss the imminent arrival of J. Arthur Rank's movie re-creation of the sinking of the S.S. Titanic, Rank flacks flooded the mails with swizzle sticks topped by the lost liner tilting toward destruction-gruesome little blue plastic models for sentimental soaks to rattle against the melting ice-cube icebergs in their highball glasses. Thus a casual libation might become a miniature marine disaster. ("Hey, Louie! Watch the Titanic go down in the drink.") If the talents...
...current UN debate is concerned, Greece has given up hope of explicit U.S. support, and simply asks that we remain truly neutral. She is not primarily concerned about our own vote on the matter, but worries lest we try to pressure Latin American countries into backing a resolution favorable to Britain--as the English, of course, want...