Word: lusciousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when heard removed from the setting of papier-mache palm trees, skirts of all grasses and emaciated, brown-powdered chorus boys. Robert Chisholm (Golden Dawn, Sweet Adeline}, as a drunken beachcomber, does some powerful chanting with "Son of the Sun." Ruth Altman, the latest find of Producer Hammerstein, a luscious-looking lady who sings well but whose speaking voice is throaty to the point of unintelligibility, is fairly satisfactory as the ill-starred princess. The vaudeville team of Jans & Whalen capers through some very thin comedy material, representing the inevitable U. S. Marines. Most hummable waltz: "Magic Spell of Love...
Locusts are good to eat. St. Matthew says of John the Baptist: "His meat was locusts and wild honey." Shakespeare in Othello refers ecstatically to food "as luscious as locusts." Last week in the French and Spanish colonies in Africa, where the locust swarms were a nuisance but not a plague, hungry natives ate their fill, played games with the hoppers, bet on their hops. Tourists from the U. S. on Mediterranean cruises took a different view, grew vexed and grumpy as the hoppers hopped into their berths, baths, soups. In Greece and Rumania the sudden arrival of the locusts...