Word: minx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's King George III once let his heavy Teutonic eyes wander sheeplike in the direction of a lovely, unpredictable minx named Lady Sarah Lennox. For political reasons he could not marry her, had to settle instead for a mousy, home-loving German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Later, when George's younger brothers Gloucester and Cumberland married their own lights-of-love without so much as a by-your-leave, George was furious and had Parliament pass the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. It has provided ever since that George's descendants may not marry without...
...nastiness is touched off when a poor little orphan (Margaret O'Brien) goes to live with her rich, half-mad uncle (Herbert Marshall). An officious, adder-tongued little minx who detests practically everyone she meets, Margaret soon meets her match. Her crippled cousin (Dean Stockwell) turns out to be the same sort of brat. In the tantrum match that follows, the two youngsters give themselves (and the audience) a crashing good time yowling, screeching and smashing what appears to be a gross of studio crockery...
...French dime novel behind footlights, Obsession tells of a coldhearted minx who marries a very jealous man while remaining the mistress of a very rich one! She is such a bad liar that the most trusting husband would be wild with suspicion in a week; her own husband has spotted his rival before all the audience has straggled in, and has murdered him long before the end. As the curtain falls, the husband is taken into custody. The wife unconcernedly lights a cigaret...
Married. Joan Fontaine, 28, minx-eyed cinemactress; and William Dozier, 38, RKO production executive; both for the second time; in Mexico City...
This, the ninth of the Whiteoaks novels, goes back to 1850, when Adeline ("Grand ma" of Jalna) is a bride, an unruly Irish minx whom callous readers will want to smack in earnest as her husband threatens to do in fun. Adeline and Captain Philip build their new home in Ontario, begin raising their now famous family, and otherwise provide one more variation of the story pattern familiar to thousands...