Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, Esther Williams started out wearing old-fashioned bathing suits, one on top of the other. Then she began to peel. She displayed everything from the first bathing costume ever created, which looked like a snow suit, down to a bikini. She didn't wear the bikini. She palmed...
...longer holds any surprises. Eliot's lesser poetic cousins-Auden, Spender, Stevens-sip the highballs that somehow fail to intoxicate, that are diluted by too much intellectual ice. There are such grand old but long-familiar individualists as Martini-clever e. e. cummings (with lemon peel) and hard-cider-happy Robert Frost. The younger men frantically mix their drinks, from opaque Bloody Marys to phony-bucolic applejack. Mostly they are reduced to talking to each other...
...genuine German Schloss, complete with park and pond, now owned by the proud potato-peel tycoons of Thedestrasse...
Limited Liability. In North Sacramento, Calif., Judge J. Louis Missall acquitted Adolph John Machold of a charge of throwing a banana peel out of a car, commented: "Of all the things which are thrown out on the highway, a banana peel is probably among the least offensive...
...COCKTAIL PARTY (Decca; $9.98) and MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL (Angel; $9.98). Eliot's two best plays: the first in a prancing recitation by the original New York cast (Alec Guinness, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Flemyng, Eileen Peel); the second read with less than majesty but more than dignity by Robert Donat and the Old Vic company...