Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonderful time. She sat entranced at Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days, went backstage at Ken Murray's Blackouts, listened to jazz at Bop City, danced the Charleston at a teen-age party, sipped a horse's neck (ginger ale and lemon peel) at the Stork Club, took a moonlight ride through Central Park in a convertible with the top down, and burned her tongue on a nightcap of hot chocolate at Rumpelmayer's. It was the kind of Manhattan merry-go-round that teen-agers dream about for their first visit...
Occasionally the police questioned Lucky. Said he: "If somebody slips on a banana peel, the cops call me in to find out if I'm selling bananas." Three months ago a police bigwig admitted that press charges against Luciano were "pure inventions." Lucky returned the compliment. "Italy has one of the best police forces in the world," said he, "and if they had anything on me, they'd arrest...
...something which is missing in England today-beautiful manners." Sir Osbert even had a gaudy tribute for New York, "the most beautiful and inspiring of modern creations, the sole heir to Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice." In Pittsburgh, whose smoke she spoofs in her show, Inside U.S.A., Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) accepted a nosegay of white roses from Mayor David L. Lawrence, accompanied him to a mountain top for a clear view of the city. ("Fortunately," reported the Pittsburgh Press, "it was a nice day.") With the best of British manners, Bea confided that she had never really thought Pittsburgh...
...allergy as well as a hangover. Not counting the olive in a Martini, Dr. Swartz lists some of the possible ingredients of gin that may cause an allergy: aniseed, caraway, cardamon, fennel or coriander seed, cinnamon, cloves, calamus root, licorice, orris root, sloeberries, juniper berries, nutmeg, orange or lemon peel...
...never gotten it." Yet the creation of George Apley (and perhaps the winning of the Pulitzer) made further truck with Mr. Moto distasteful to his creator. He went on writing about Moto, "but it gradually came over me that slick-magazine writing -where the hero slips on a banana peel and the heiress falls in love with him and they get married and go off to Monte Carlo-was baloney. It was very late and very slowly and largely in a spirit of revolt against this business that I began to write something different. In Apley I drew...