Word: spice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forms of entertainment have raised more eyebrows than French movies. Now the old spice is coming in a new flavor-frankly sexy, often amoral, but invariably hewed close to ugly, beautiful realities. See CINEMA, New Wave...
Qualifying Round. In Worcester Park, England, Charles Spice, 99, got a local undertaker's promise of free burial if he makes...
Britain's Princess Margaret, an all-too-eligible bachelor girl, turned 29, was greeted by Britain's press with heartfelt congratulations and a bit of "will-she-ever" worry. At the royal family gathering in Scotland's Balmoral Castle, only one romantic mystery added spice to the day. An orchid corsage, ordered by cable from the U.S., was delivered by a local florist, who refused to name the donor...
Died. Tiffany Thayer, 57, novelist who celebrated unending adventure and available women, served up a sex fantasy (Thirteen Men) with enough spice to make it an overnight bestseller in 1930, followed with others in the same highly seasoned vein (Thirteen Women, Rabelais for Boys and Girls), faded fast and returned to advertising; of a heart attack; in Nantucket, Mass...
...theory that sex builds circulation, the Chronicle, under Publisher Charles Thieriot and Executive Editor Scott Newhall, has moved toward the top spot among San Francisco newspapers with an unequaled array of columnists specializing in sophisticated spice (TIME, April 13). But the danger of sex becoming mere smut is sharply illustrated in the case of Count Marco, newest member of the Chronicle's stable of columnists...