Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Romans who knew enough English to pun called him "The Little Flour." UNRRA Director Fiorello LaGuardia snapped right back with a warning that, although he knew food supplies were low, the Italians could not expect more help from abroad...
...Montreal they found the prices comparatively low, the fun high. They crowded into the famed Au Lutin Qui Bouffe (The Greedy Imp) on St. Gregoire Street, where a baby porker ran around nuzzling the legs of diners, and apple pie arrived flaming in rum at the tables. They gobbled up the bread sticks, vin ordinaire (and extraordinaire) and hors d'oeuvres at the Cafe Martin, Chez Ernest and Chez Stien...
Growing Pains. The cause of all this bedlam: 1) the sudden boom in commercial aviation; 2) airlines' management. Personnel policies are antiquated, pay is low and big-business methods are virtually unknown. Some executives believe that bigger, faster planes will solve things, forgetting that they will only cause bigger problems at obsolete airports. Rather than use the partial benefits of radar in its present form, the industry is holding out for an all-purpose system, which is at least five years away...
Wicked Lady, a 1945 picture starring Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Patricia Roc, was a big moneymaker in England. But the U.S. will have to wait to see it. Low-cut Restoration costumes worn by the Misses Lockwood and Roc (see cut) display too much "cleavage" (Johnston Office trade term for the shadowed depression dividing an actress' bosom into two distinct sections). The British, who have always considered bare legs more sexy than half-bare breasts, are resentfully reshooting several costly scenes...
...Allen Smith has reason to like cats better than dogs. Before he turned to writing best-selling books (Low Man on a Totem Pole, Life in a Putty Knife Factory), he wrote newspaper features, including movie-star interviews. During that ordinarily harmless tour of duty, the late Lupe Velez once became so agitated that she threw a small brown dog at him. Now, at long last, Author Smith has written a novel about a cat, a large yellow alley cat called Rhubarb...