Word: lickerish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sole cause of their tension: the close, gossipy air of the colony contains other conflicts. Fern, sought by a young Army officer, is in love with the cynical Ransome. Miss MacDaid. despite race-prejudice, is hopelessly enamored of the high-souled but brown-skinned Major Safti. Lovely, lickerish Lady Esketh revives a past entanglement with Ransome, simultaneously sets a determined cap for the surgeon. They are all treading on each other's erotic heels in this fashion when the rains come-this time with catastrophic force, accompanied by an earthquake which for ten days isolates the community. And Author...
Juan in China, a continuation of his picaroon-hero's progress, is longer between laughs, thinned at times to the gin-&-water consistency of the late lightly lickerish Thorne Smith. Frankly a farce, Juan in China is a further disappointment to those who still hoped better things of Eric Linklater, a further confirmation to those who never expected anything better. But since by this week Juan has gone halfway home to England, hopeful readers still looked forward, thought what a really good time he and they might have if he ever gets there...
...until she was accused of poisoning blind Colonel Paradine, V. C. But like Garbo she was glamorous, passionate, enigmatic-a femme fatale. She complicated life unbearably enough for her lawyer Sir Malcolm Keane, hitherto a devoted husband, without having his young wife Gay antagonize Judge Horfield by squelching his lickerish advances. And again like Garbo, Mrs. Paradine was of humble Scandinavian birth, had once worked in a barber shop. So there had been no insuperable barrier between her and her husband's valet, handsome William Marsh. Everything might have gone along smoothly, since Colonel Paradine was blind, if Marsh...
...badger game" is so old a criminal trick that dictionaries describe it. A dishonest woman lures a lickerish man into her apartment. Suddenly appears the '"husband," who for cash will overlook his "wife's" indiscretion. Occasionally such blackmail is worked by low men upon rich women. Rarely have the victims sufficient hardihood to resist the imposition...
...unlike Ernest Bramah's tales of Kai Lung, in its lacquered language of excessive pseudo-Oriental politeness, unlike them in the faintly lickerish tinge of the narrative, Petal-of-the-Rose gives about as realistic a picture of China as a musi-comedy does of life, affords much the same kind of titillating entertainment...