Word: potion
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...hopes of finding a husband. She eventually found two, becoming once divorced and once widowed. Before that, however, she found success. As appalled by the dry, flaky skin of Australia's hardy pioneer women as she later was by American complexions, Helena began selling a potion made of almonds and tree bark. The formula made her $100,000 within three years, and she set sail for Europe, where she opened a Mayfair salon. By World War I she was the reigning beauty adviser to British and French society. She decided to move to New York to take...
...distinguished from non-U, monsters-a nice, funereal, bourgeois family like the Addamses of ABC. Fred Gwynne is Father; he consists of parts of seven people. Yvonne De Carlo is Mother. She tells her son: "Don't forget to wash behind your points." Grandfather last week drank a potion to turn himself into Mr. Hyde, and when he didn't turn, he said his suspicions were confirmed: somebody had been cutting the stuff. At a masquerade ball, Father won first prize for his own face. "I've never been so insulted," he said, "since...
...Nutty Professor. A bit of summer madness that allows Jerry Lewis to play a dual role: the apelike Professor Kelp, who drinks a Dr. Jekyll potion and transforms himself into a Dean Martin-like pop singer. Lewis, as usual, goes too far, and the results are funny only half the time...
...bullies some fullbacks, sings some songs in a Jerry-built baritone, and tells the chicks to call him Buddy Love. All this is too much for Student Stella Stevens, and off they go to a parking spot in Beverly Hills. But Lewis begins to feel the effects of his potion wearing...
...branch of Tokyo's Teikoku Bank wearing the armband of a municipal official. Claiming that he was a city health inspector, the man ordered the bank manager to summon all his employees so that he could give them a dose of antidysentery medicine. The employees gulped the potion, then collapsed in agony. From the open vaults, the medicine man grabbed about $185 in cash and disappeared into the street. Behind him, twelve people lay dead of cyanide poisoning...