Word: nugget
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Trade Traders. That nugget never occurred to Robert Louis Stevenson, to whom Thomas was faithful in plot structure alone, replacing Stevenson's old salty seadog manner with a moody romanticism, but preserving Stevenson's gun-shooting, skeleton-rattling scary tale of fists, love and danger. His most interesting character is Case, the incarnate devil-"ironically attitudinizing, full of disgust and venom there in the fly-loud, flyblown, bottle-strewn bedded room." The part is intended at present for James Mason, but Burton would do well to trade traders with...
...book to beguile an idle interval, to start a line of thought, or at least to glean a nugget suitable for dropping into the next dinner-table pause...
...flamboyant Jewelry Designer Roger King, 26, whose flashy $3,400 brooch suggesting an A-bomb blast (mushrooms of diamonds rising from a ruby earth) won Britain's "Jewel of the Year" award. Then glaring out at of the the audience in a posh London showroom where his nuclear nugget was on display, King dropped another wee bomb by deploring "the tendency of upper-class women to wear dreary strands of pearls all the time." Totally unruffled was the conservatively dressed, pearl-wearing woman at whom his remarks were aimed: Lady Dorothy Macmillan, wife of the Prime Minister, who once...
...splash. At the Palace Grand Theater, where Douglas Fairbanks Sr. once played to Klondike sourdoughs, British Comedienne Bea Lillie officially opened the festival, later joined an 18-carat audience to give the troupe a wild standing ovation. "It was tremendous," said Lahr. But the critics thought that the nugget needed some polishing. Said the Chicago Sun-Times, which sent a Canadian-born reporter up to cover the event: "It might be fool's gold for Broadway purposes...
...crew cuts and madras skirts at the base of Beacon Hill); the Rathskeller. (beer, tumult, and cameraderie on Commonwealth Avenue); the go-it-alone joints along Washington St., notably the Palace (where you can bring a date during the week and emerge unscathed), the Novelty Bar, and the Golden Nugget...