Word: piquantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCloskey, whose Irish bellow and piquant beauty had made her, in a few months, the best known yard personality outside of John Harvard, will be the first outside female performer to show before the HDP footlights since...
...Most piquant sauce for the gander: the playwrights' season-long pummeling of the critics...
...swing to the left largely to postwar upheaval. She wrote: "People voting in Europe this year are not voting their permanent political convictions. They are voting their . . . reactions to immediate circumstances." Well-fed Belgians seemed to be the first to bear out this analysis. They added a piquant touch of their own: a predominantly leftist Government had led the return to prosperity, which resulted in gains for the friends of Leopold...
...fantastic $235-a-day hotel suite. Since there will be forays into official Washington society, he decides that the blonde had better get educated. His choice of a teacher is a crusading young writer on the New Republic. From there on everything in the play is predictable, but piquant. The young woman, who defines peninsula as "that new medicine," is soon taught words like antisocial and cartel. Her mind sharpens, her conscience stirs, and her amorous inclinations shift. She and her tutor get the goods on Brock, then march off to be married...
...Rankl, who looked like "a set of false teeth," was sipping coffee with whipped cream and reciting snatches of patriotic poetry to his wife. She dreamed of passion when not stuffing herself with lush pastry. Grandson Franz-Ferdinand was goggling at a peep show entitled: "For Men Only . . . Piquant Photographs." Granddaughters Wally and Adrienne were in the boudoir, shining up their eyes with belladonna. In short, the Austrian Empire was on its last legs...