Word: lusciousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning slowly and calmly in his luscious brogue, Father Coughlin assured the Townsendites that he had not come to persuade or dictate to them. He simply wanted to tell them a few things about the National Union. Bit by bit. rehearsing his familiar indictments of the Federal Reserve Banks and the "money changers." he stepped up-as Adolf Hitler does-his speed and volume. By the time he reached President Roosevelt's failure to keep his inaugural promise to drive the money changers from the temple, the Priest was sweating as freely as had Preacher Smith...
...divided her second one-man show about equally between animate and inanimate objects, all of which seemed to have struck her with equal intensity. There was a broken statue with a clutter of dead fish, an antique sugar shepherdess, a dead duck. All these were painted with luscious tactile surfaces, every detail as important as every other...
...everything, but it's hard to got along without. His take is simple and though unevenly paced it has its moments. A quiet, solid little tourists home is thrown into an uproar of delicious confusion when the unexpected guest sweeps in the alluring form of Carole Arden, the luscious temptress of the silver screen. Miss Arden seems to be on a tour of personal appearances which has been interrupted by the breakdown of her ivory Issota...
Author Bentley, without disallowing history's whispers that Caesar was a rake, minimizes the details. Readers who expect a luscious Egyptian interlude with Cleopatra do not know their Bentley. Cleopatra makes only one appearance-fully clothed and middleaged. Caesar's most constant mistress was Servilia, Brutus' mother, and of her Author Bentley contrives to make a somehow noble Roman matron, though she was twice married and continually unfaithful to both husbands. The other chief figures in the story appear as conventional history reports them: Pompey, a handsome, courageous, slow-minded soldier; Cicero a henpecked, opportunistic politician with...
...onetime pilot named Dizzy Davis (James Cagney) returns to the field to get his old job back. An irresponsible limb to whom blondes & brunettes mean the same thing, his escapades are matched only by the superintendent's reckless loyalty to him. Immediately Dizzy Davis sniffs suggestively at a luscious 19 -year-old aviatrix. To keep an engagement with her, he feigns a heart attack, has a pal (Stuart Erwin) pilot his run. In accordance with best make-believe traditions the pal strikes fog, and, with radio out of commission, bashes through high tension wires, squashes a hangar, dies. After...