Word: lusciousness
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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...
Jenny. So long as Jane Cowl appears delightfully arch, points her wit with her own sly, luscious laughter and plays the scales with her throaty voice, she will receive plenty of homage. But many of her admirers who see her in Jenny will wonder why so subtle and personable an actress permits herself to appear in such a stale, superficial play. Co-Playwrights Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon have pictured John R. Weatherby, a corporation lawyer who has pampered his family until they are all incorrigible. His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy...
...Into the Eastern food markets moved three carloads of particularly luscious apricots. Each crate was proudly proclaimed: "Grown and Packed on President Hoover's Ranch, Wasco, Cal." A pell-mell demand for Hoover apricots followed until the supply was exhausted. . . . Great was the President's annoyance at this exploitation of his name and position. Careful explanations emanated officially from the White House: President Hoover does not own a Wasco Fruit Ranch. He does own some stock in Pozo Products Co. which in turn controls the ranch. The use of his name was "positively unauthorized," "grossly misleading...
...Like a luscious, dangling fruit is Manchuria, granary of the Orient, the only part of China not impoverished by war and famine, a prosperous land that absorbs annually $36,000,000 worth of U. S. goods. Last week the growling and hissing of Russian Bear and Chinese Dragon over the Manchurian prize grew increasingly furious until the two Great Powers clawed warily at each other, drew a few spurts of soldier blood. Such was the smoke screen of lies set up by both antagonists that alert observers could set down only a few vital, verifiable developments...