Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting pretty on Broadway was Play wright John van Druten, with two smash hits (The Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama}. Sitting prettier were Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, with two smash musicals (Oklahoma!, Carousel)-and the producers' haul from Mama. On a seesaw were Broadway's two gaudiest impresarios: Mike Todd aground, his pockets heavy from Up in Central Park] Billy Rose aloft, his pockets light from The Seven Lively Arts. Still spry, Life With Father beat the record of Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances), had only Tobacco Road...
...horrified women and girls, slapped them, spat at them. Male relatives came to the rescue, dispersed the screaming trulls. Then, from an official Government auto jumped skinny, blue-eyed Nicolasa Sevilla, owner of a cut-rate brothel. Threatening the older women with a knife, she spluttered filth at the prettier girls...
...because we feel that they are in danger and the danger we fear for them is not an English woman's charms. We were also under the impression that there is a war going on and that it isn't to decide who is the prettier- English or American girls...
Rotary Reconstructed. To get a line on Schireson, the Record sent a patient to consult him about making her neck prettier. She found a "heavyset man, sixtyish in appearance, dressed in youthful tweeds. His ready smile revealed excellent bridge-work." He said that a neck treatment would merely give her "a perfect neck, a throat of vibrant youth, topped by an aged face." She should have "a complete rotary reconstruction" to make her face as beautiful as her eyes. "Your eyes alone," said Schireson, "would be the dream of any plastic surgeon...
Smart-in Some Ways. Even with all the fighters you could see Berlin plain. The prettiest city I ever seen from the air, prettier than Paris, laid out so perfectly. Those krauts are smart Joes in some ways...