Word: smitten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much of Sablon's climb to success had been made on the ladder of love. He got his first job in show business-as a chorus boy-through a mademoiselle who was smitten with his charms when she saw him on a train. Then Mistinguett, who at 70-odd still boasts "la plus belle jambe de France," took a shine to him, made him her leading man. In the U.S., his press-agents call him "the French Frank Sinatra," adding archly, "who appeals to the nylon-soxers...
Triumph. For A. P. Giannini, who had once peddled vegetables, it was enough to meditate in fierce and profane triumph. He still had enemies, but he had smitten the big ones hip & thigh. Wall Street, and the "goddamned Eastern bankers" who had once tried to swallow him, could only watch him impotently now, with half-reluctant admiration. This week, after 42 years of struggle, his Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association, which covers California with 494 branches in over 300 cities, had become the biggest private bank in the world. Once before, Bank of America had passed Manhattan...
Radio, which lately has been smitten hip & thigh by its critics (TIME, March 4, 18), last week found a friend. The University of Denver's National Opinion Research Center reported the results of a poll gratifying to the industry and confounding to its detractors. Said NORC...
...some neighbours of mine met and passed me in their motor, laughing. Were they laughing at me? I wondered uneasily; and as I sauntered across the fields I vaguely cursed those misbelievers. Yes, yes, their eyes should be darkened, and their mocking lips put to silence. They should be smitten with the botch of Egypt, and a sore botch in the legs that cannot be healed...
...goddess Aphrodite who won the Fleece for them. She made her son Eros wait behind a pillar with his bow until handsome Jason strode into the King of Colchis' palace. Then Eros shot Medea, the King's daughter, through the heart, and the love-smitten princess helped to get the Fleece from her father's temple. Mythology's most famous voyage had reached its goal, but Author Graves takes 150 more pages to wind things...