Word: slush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure, there always were a few who complained of irony in the word "jolly," but the wise knew this to be in jest. There were others who publicly scorned the walk over autumn leaves or mid-winter slush to the stuffy, overcrowded dance floors, but the floors never ceased to be packed. Some criticized the innocuous punch, the bad music, and the atmosphere, but everyone knew these scoffers were only the frustrated, the timid, the jealous and the lazy. All the world liked jolly-ups, and all the world was jolly. No one feared, for the jolly...
...brain." If, like Johanna, moviegoers could keep their ears closed and their eyes open, they might enjoy Salzburg, Rome, Capri and Anacapri in fetching color. And by letting Zsa Zsa be Zsa Zsa, Director Rudi (Dodsworth) Mate has managed to extract a jigger of humor from a magnum of slush. When Mario protests the presence of reporters at what was to be an intimate little party, Zsa Zsa says: "But dahr-link, deese are my most intimate friends - United Press, Associated Press, and Meester Reuter!" The Devil's Disciple (Hecht-Hill-Lancaster & Brynaprod; United Artists). Its carpingest critic said...
After two weeks of trotting through mud and slush in football shoes, he entered the Triangulars at Yale on Feb. 14 against a strong field. Although little was expected of him after only two weeks of training, Benjamin refused to give up and finished second to Eli John Morrison in a miraculous...
Lucius was not one to let February 14th slip by unobserved, and as he emerged squinting from the library, his rubbers pioneered their way through the slush to the Crimson Specialty Shop...
...things run counter to the rest: Jo Mielziner's ingenious, bright sets, and 19-year-old French-Chinese Actress Nuyen's fetching personality. A more slushy than sexy blend of sex and slush, Suzie Wong should linger long on Broadway, just the thing for matinee ladies munching tear-splashed caramels or for gentlemen with a slightly adolescent fondness for tarts...