Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same reception where Attlee made his well-meant, ill-received remark, Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) was strolling about, smoking a cigarette in a holder. Princess Margaret came up. Bea, not wanting to curtsy while brandishing a cigarette, stuffed it and the holder into her dress front. At St. James's Palace earlier in the day, while a certain lady of title was viewing the royal wedding presents, the King came up to her and, with a very quizzical expression, said: "A lot of people must have had a lot of very nice things stored away for a very long...
...Bruno Wiederman, Middle Peel: Baby O.K. but not had X ray. Expects to have it soon. (Signed) Anne...
...front-bench colleagues, crashed into Sir Stafford Cripps's defense of Britain's quitting India. Cripps turned on Churchill, icily asked him to "cease talking so loudly." Sir Stafford suffered another interruption. Tory Robert Boothby broke in: "Is it in order for an honorable member to peel and eat an orange during the debate?" Solemnly the Chair ruled: "In this chamber one does not smoke, one does not chew gum, one does not eat chocolate and sweets, and one should not peel and eat an orange in this chamber, either...
...timer (rich, from Boston) who retouches a portrait of her into fancy leg-art; a poet who sings like, and is played by, Kenny Baker; a straight man who writes songs and gets the girl. Typical comedy routine: a firemen's tug of war complicated by a banana peel and a sneeze. All this corn has a kind of innocence about it that is almost-but not quite-disarming enough. Jane Frazee, despite her waxworks role and surroundings, is human, likable and nice to look...
...Luxury Lovers. Last week's action did peel off (as of July 1) the top layer of taxes on luxury goods, amusements, communications and railway berths -taxes which have cost U.S. citizens an annual $1.2 billion since they were slapped on by the 1943 wartime Revenue Act. Chiefly this was a New Year's present to luxury-loving Americans...