Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Designing Woman (M-G-M). Reporters are madly romantic and have unlimited expense accounts. Manhattan career girls are born in the Midwest and tantalize men by biting their ear lobes. Bigtime gangsters send their sons to Princeton. Men are only big overgrown boys and have terrible taste in furniture. Women hate each other and get hysterical at the sight of blood. When a bachelor stops his convertible on a side road at night and murmurs "How about it, huh?" he is of course proposing marriage...
...Uruguay counts its sheep more carefully than its people, has taken no census since 1908. Estimated population: 3,000,000, with overgrown Montevideo accounting for one-third of the total...
...reaction, which was widely shared, was perverted into something else by some British Laborites, who deplored the Poznan uprising as a check to what they deemed to be the beneficient evolution of Communism. Laborite Richard H. S. Crossman, who flits in and out of the Bevan camp like an overgrown lightning bug, was upset that anyone outside should support those "desperate men who turned a peaceful demonstration into an armed uprising. We should frankly tell the Poles that armed insurrection is the one thing which could force the Russians to reverse their new-look policy." Fortunately, not everyone...
...Kefauver's going to get it. But I say that Stevenson hasn't got it yet, either. Who knows? Might be a dark horse-somebody we haven't even heard of. No, not [Michigan's Governor G. Mennen] Williams; he's just a big, overgrown boy. Somebody like [Montana's Senator] Mike Mansfield, maybe. Fine fellow, Mike. I like...
...Look? Roving U.P. Columnist Gloria Swanson thought so and hailed it. From Rome ex-Screen Siren Swanson cabled: "Now with . . . America's Grace Kelly leading the flat-chested brigade, leaving behind . . . all the other sweater girls, I hope it won't be long before Italy's overgrown divas will be the last contestants in the international Miss Community Chest contests...