Word: nosey
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...collection of delightful minor characters slip in and out of the story as they are neded. There is an ambitious youngster, "Nosey," who "wants to be an artist," and a bitter but affectionate Irish barmaid. To this latter Jimson tries to explain his art: "Look at that figure, Cokey. Feel it with your eyes. First see the lines, then the colors..." To which she replies, "All I know, Mr. Jimson, is that no self respecting woman would let herself be painted like that." There is also a soft but deceitful matron, to whom Jimson was once married, and a Lord...
...essence of Jimmy's character, as drawn by Fowler, is revealed in his visit to Rosie, the elephant who had co-starred with him in Jumbo and then turned melancholy when the show closed. "Rosie! Rosie! It's Nosey!" said Durante. Rosie trumpeted and lay down on all fours, as she had been taught to do in Jumbo. Jimmy tried to wrap his arms around her. "Rosie ain't forgot me," he cried, tears in his voice. "Look! She still loves...
...Next week I will receive my 1,000th copy of TIME. I have sworn 999 times never to read TIME again. But each time it appears in the mail box I get nosey to know what's going on in Asia, who the best ten Senators are, etc. As usual next month we'll subscribe again. If you ever stop piquing me, I'll know I'm washed...
With her, and settling down as her next-door neighbor, has come a dilettantish, old-maidish male (Cyril Ritchard). Against her, from the moment she arrives, is the formidable Miss Mapp, a manhunting, stop-at-nothing Nosey Parker (Catherine Willard). The struggle for primacy between the two women-Lucia's efforts to dethrone Miss Mapp as a tyrant, Miss Mapp's to unmask Lucia as a fraud-produces a series of mock-heroic crescendos and climaxes...
...this careful attention to detail brings Gorgeous George upwards of $70,000 a year. He doesn't seem to mind playing his swishy role. But he steps out of character whenever anybody asks nosey questions about his wife and two kids: "Let's leave the better half of my life outa this...