Word: sloe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot was tailor-made: two Navy veterans, cruising the Caribbean in a 75-foot yacht, acquired a sloe-eyed little belly dancer from Toledo. Her name was Patricia Schmidt, but she had wiggled her way along the honky-tonk circuit from Chicago to Trinidad as "Satira." When she moved aboard, to share Mee's cabin, his pal Charles Jackson obligingly moved to another. One day Mee told her to pack up; his wife was coming down from Chicago. They fought, Patricia shot Mee, and a few days later he died...
...before Christianity, had never seen anything quite like the Inter-Asian Relations Conference. For the first time in history, Asians representing half the world's people came together under Asiatic sponsorship. The 200 delegates, from 30-odd countries and colonial territories, made an impressive spectacle. There were tiny, sloe-eyed Indonesian women in batiked lungis and husky Nepalese soldiers in rich blue brocade, bejeweled princesses, fez-topped Arabs, and lamas from Tibet in long crimson kimonos, their hair done in braids and their ears weighted with blue stone ornaments...
Happy Birthday (by Anita Loos; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) shows what a frightening assortment of drinks in a Newark ginmill did to-and for-a prim, plain-looking little librarian (Helen Hayes). On any realistic basis, abstemious Addie Bemis, loaded with pink ladies, whiskey, sloe gin and champagne, would doubtless be violently sick by 10 o'clock; but Happy Birthday is far from realistic, and by 11 o'clock gaily gyrating Addie has copped herself a husband...
Younger brother Victor, now 28, didn't bring his saxophone into the band until he organized a rival one called Lombardo's Canadian Royals. Sloe-eyed Baby Sister Rose Marie, 19, joined as a singer in 1942. A brother-in-law, Lieut. Kenny Gardner, will be back as singer when he is discharged from the Army. That leaves one brother out: Joe, who can't play anything. Joe likes interior decorating, so the Roosevelt hired him to decorate the Grill...
Imogene Stevens, 24, sloe-eyed Texan who last June jolted staid New Canaan, Conn, by bumping off Seaman Al Kovacs, 19, in an "aura of sex recrimination, beer and window-smashing reprisals" (so said Coroner Theodore E. Steiber), returned from a summer of Army camping with her husband, Major George R. Stevens III. Rumor said that she might seek a change of venue for her impending manslaughter trial because of public prejudice...