Word: ribald
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...Rooney," said a friend. "She always cries." And whenever she cried a woman from South Bend, Ind., invariably followed. Soon scores of weepers had been touched off, were brusquely ordered to restrain themselves until a more critical moment. Once, at dinner, "Mrs. Dilling suddenly started to sing a mildly ribald song about a young lady and her fiance. Later she stuck her thumb into the air, 'snatched' at [it] with her left hand and made it 'disappear.' She laughed hysterically while she pinched her left...
Jimmy McHugh songs, a ribald number (Fuddy-Duddy Watchmaker) by Betty Hutton, some neat hip-swinging by Miss Martin and some homespunish philosophy by Comic Eddie Bracken (sample: "You only get out of a sweater what you put into...
Errol Flynn's wild oat (TIME, Oct. 26) may flower into a greater popularity than he has ever known. While Los Angeles justice pondered the case of Cinemactor Flynn (charged with statutory rape), the verdict of the cinemasses was warm, spontaneous and ribald. An audience that crowded San Francisco's Fox Theater to see Flynn's Desperate Journey had the time of its life...
MOTHER FINDS A BODY-Gypsy Rose Lee-Simon & Schuster ($2). The ribald and revealing antics of a bunch of traveling burleycuers on the Texas border, and what they did about a couple of unwanted corpses that turned up in their trailer. Has its points as a detective story and its moments of truth as a chronicle of life among strippers, tassel-tossers and the like; also a few amusingly snide remarks. But the show-stuff pretty much follows the party line laid down in The G-String Murders...
...luster that oceans of hokum have washed away. All the same Playwright Anderson has frequently brought to his story something as warm with life as a heart beat, yet kept it masculine with the kind of tough Army humor he once put into What Price Glory?. There are swearing, ribald sergeants in The Eve of St. Mark as well as young-eyed privates. There is jocular cynicism as well as burning faith. There are roadhouse floozies as well as the girl back home...