Word: loreleis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lorelei, so lang du singst...
Hard on the heels of the scare story that the U.S. was invading Germany with the Colorado beetle, the Communists spread another fantastic tale: the "Amis" (Americans) had mined the Rhine's big Lorelei rock†so that they could blow it into the river, creating a dam which they could later break to flood the flat lower Rhineland. Last week the Communists followed through with a singing commercial over Berlin's Red radio station...
...Poor old Robert. I have always wondered why they called him Curthose. Maybe his stockings kept slipping down, the way mine did in the sixth grade?" When dealing, with the world of here & now, Author McKenney drops into a dear-diary style more suggestive of Anita Loos's Lorelei Lee than of an ex-staff writer of the New Masses. "In fact, I think leaving debris around even in a place totally remote, is antisocial and swinish; people who throw sardine cans into babbling brooks . . . probably ought to be shot...
Comedienne Carol Channihg, 29, admitted that a grave personal problem had grown out of her playing the role of bird-brained Lorelei Lee in Broadway's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. People seemed to be convinced that she is a birdbrain offstage, too: "I won't say that people actually think I'm just two steps removed from outright idiocy, but they do seem to have adopted a protective attitude towards...
...schoolmates to think of her as a big, good-natured clown, and Carol played up to the part. But at home, hoping to please Mrs. Channing, Carol did her best to act a dainty, cuddly blonde. Years later, when she was first approached for the part of cuddly little Lorelei, she said confidently: "I've been playing her ever since I was twelve...