Word: smooch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer heat boiled Broadway audiences away and frazzled actors' tempers, Happy Hunting's Ethel Merman and Fernando Lamas feuded over the firing of one of Lamas' buddies, found that their nightly onstage smooch grated too harshly on their star-crossed sensibilities, worked out a solution: instead of the kiss, a cool, coexistent...
When they come to the Rodin Museum, Jeanne and Alan stick their heads through the noble statue of The Burghers of Calais and smooch a little. Jeanne, as she bats those baby-blues at The Thinker, declares, "I wonder what he is thinking about." After that, nothing matters anyhow. Jane Russell keeps trying to give Scott Brady, her agent, the other 90% of her; and both young women sing, as nowadays most lady vocalists do, in a peculiarly unpleasant morning voice. The hoarseness is apparently intended to suggest that the girls have taken large doses of sin in their time...
...domesticity." But there is no real drabness in this domestic life. Over everything is the rosy glow of a perpetual honeymoon. Explains Ackerman: "It isn't sex [that keeps the show going], though that's implied. What it is, really, is a certain quality of love and smooch...
...have to talk to anyone, you sonsabitches." The whole affair did not seem so private to nightclub patrons who had just witnessed a balcony scene between Frankie and Ava. Said one: "They thought nobody could see them when they went out there to smooch in the dark, but they were wearing white clothes and it was better than the floor show...
...doesn't make the deadline, the penalty is obscure, and rumored to be up to "J.B." (Judicial Board) and horrible. At any rate the goodnight kiss is interrupted regularly by consulting the watch. On weekends the porches are littered with such goodnight kissers, though some get the privacy of "smooch boxes," or storm doors...