Word: prim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than that." Now that his turn has come, Monk cuts a fine figure on the scene. Nellie spends a hysterical hour every evening getting him into his ensemble, and when he steps out the door he looks faintly like an Oriental garden?subtle colors echoing back and forth, prim suits and silk shirts glimmering discreetly. He spends hours standing around with his band, talking in his unpenetrable, oracular mode. "All ways know, always night, all ways know?and dig the way I say 'all ways,' " he says, smiling mysteriously. When he is playing anywhere near New York, the baroness comes...
...assistants, Chandramati and Padma. Imagine if you can an Indian Sophia Loren, as my companion in the audience suggested, and a lovely doll-like Oriental performing a dance of intense flirtation with the audience, whispering silently to them, looking them in the eye. One was sultry, pouting; the other prim and coquettish; yet both were dancing the same steps. When one glared out of the corner of her eye, the other peeked; yet both moved their eyes at the same time, with the same speed. When Western dancers dance the same steps, they usually manage, if precise, to look like...
...only was Christine a marijuana smoker who engaged in nightly orgies, said the paper, but it added the oddly prim observation that she only bathed every other day and never washed her underwear; when it got too dirty, she sent her butler out to buy some more. Christine immediately filed suit against The People...
Died. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, 89, prim executive housekeeper at the White House from 1933 to 1946, who handled such oversized housewifely problems as bedtime hot-water bottles requested by the British royal family during a 1939 summer visit, and frightening morning memos from Mrs. F.D.R. ("Mrs. Nesbitt: There will be 5,000 to tea"), then chronicled it all in the bestselling White House Diary and The Presidential Cookbook; after a long illness; in Bethesda...
...tobaccomen most is the increasing difficulty, in the face of such pressure, of attracting the young smokers on whom their future depends. Though half of U.S. adults and 44% of all high school seniors are said to be regular smokers, a teen-ager no longer need feel chicken or prim for not smoking. The Cancer Society claims marked success from its stepped-up showings of cigarette-warning films in schools, and youngsters who quit find themselves in good company. Among adult quitters: LeRoy Collins, who almost lost his job as president of the National Association of Broadcasters when he expressed...