Word: luscious
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...London theater. Inevitably, Alex steps through Playwright Bliss's looking glass, when she goes to work for him as his secretary. Bliss is an homme fatal, one of those men three-quarters of whose present consists of past. But Alex keeps calm till Geoffrey casts a luscious peeress, Lady Perdita Carne, in his medieval spectacle play Ludovic II. The soap operantics of Ask Me No More are made palatable by a knowing re-creation of the London theater, lively dialogue that is often outrageously punny ( "Anouilh, get your gun"), and a couple of cocktail party scenes laced with name...
...Crooner Frank Sinatra, back from several inconclusive rounds with luscious Lady Beatty and the London press (TIME, Nov. 10), started sparring with New York Journal-American Photographer Melvin Finkelstein. The photographer claimed that Sinatra tried to run him down with a rented Cadillac limousine outside Manhattan's Harwyn Club. As Sinatra left with Model Nan Whitney, Finkelstein got set to take a picture, whereupon Frankie cried to his chauffeur: "Get him! Kill that bastard." Scoffed Sinatra: "What I read in the papers must have happened to three other guys...
...randy old Hungarian dandy likens the American girl to the avocado: "A hard center with the tender meat all wrapped up in a shiny casing. So green-so eternally green . . . And I will tell you something really extraordinary. Do you know that you can take the stones of these luscious fruits, put them in water-just plain water, mind you . . . and in three months up comes a sturdy little plant full of green leaves? This is their sturdy little souls bursting into bloom...
...week got off to a big start with the parade, which stopped traffic cold in the Loop for four hours and a half. Maybe 12,000 people marched-some counted 46 floats and close to a hundred bands-but not one too many of those luscious-legged drum majorettes from such towns as Magnolia, Ark. and Kitchener, Ont. Later in the week the wives had plenty of time to spend money in the department stores. In between the boisterous, briefest business sessions, the men got to a big league game at Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh Pirates...
...Voelker, justice of the Michigan Supreme Court) suffers from inexpert writing but describes in fascinating detail the elaborate, unpredictable mechanism that controls the outwardly simple scales of justice during a murder trial. A fact that has not harmed sales is that the case involves the rape of a luscious doll (she is so sexy that the defense lawyer orders her to wear a girdle on the witness stand so as not to antagonize prudish jurors...