Word: nether
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Full Nether Lip. Nelly was born, said the journals of the age, in a Covent Garden bawdyhouse, of a father unknown and a mother notorious as "old Madam Gwyn," a brandy-soak "that in one day could twenty quarts consume, / And bravely vaunt she durst it twice presume." (One day she durst, and the next she was fished out of a Chelsea brook; Nelly, rich and famous by then, gave her one of the flashiest funerals of the Restoration...
...disturbing habit of drinking from a bottle in public, shocked fellow guests at a presidential party by taking a hefty slug when the others were raising their glasses in a toast. He addressed a public meeting with a cigarette dangling from his nether lip. Not to be outdone by U.S. Ambassador H. Merle Cochran, who had a shiny blue 1950 Packard, Uncle Barhen acquired a shiny red 19 50 Packard...
Walbrook's acting is suitably romantic, complete with palsied gestures and tremblings of the nether lip. However, he is addicted to the phrase, "I luff you," which sounds ludicrous in spite of the fact that Pushkin may have written it. Dame Edith Evans plays the elderly countess with great attention to realistic detail, and Yvonne Mitchell is highly attractive as Walbrook's inamorata...