Word: tallulah
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...Soho Café. Yet he was never a stranger to London. The Soho restaurant called the Eiffel Tower knew his booming voice and august figure as well as it knew his colorful companions: Max Beerbohm, Tallulah Bankhead, Wyndham Lewis, the young Prince of Wales. In Ireland he spent his time with W. B. Yeats; in Paris he sought out James Joyce; in London he came to know Shaw, Wilde and Aldous Huxley. To women he was irresistible. It was said the female sitters would sometimes strip off their clothes without John's either asking or wanting them to. When...
...pasture (this season: Under the Yum-Yum Tree, The Pleasure of His Company, etc.). But he has also mixed in Wilde, Williams, Sherwood, and Giraudoux, giving the Kennebunkport Playhouse a high reputation among actors, critics, and the sober side of his audiences. Performers are fond of returning there, including Tallulah Bankhead, Henry Morgan, Russell Nype, and Currier's own sister, Singer Jane Morgan...
...Student Council came out against goalpost rioting while the Faculty concerned itself with abolishing the elementary language requirement. This was the year when Tallulah Bankhead told the CRIMSON that drama must never be censored, and the spring when it was discovered that Harvard University was left without a single dean or executive above the rank of secretary to the President for one entire weekend...
...Rusty and Salty set out to feast on steel auto accessories but were frustrated by "rust-free aluminum" ("I'm having a bad time, Salty. This side trim is aluminum"). Setting out to do likewise, Great Lakes Steel has recently sponsored commercials in which "Lulu La Lumium," a Tallulah-voiced aluminum bumper, is constantly banged and bent by a steel bumper with a strong masculine voice. Sample dialogue...
...also, of course, a gamely resourceful Tallulah, now Charlestoning, now sliding down banisters and firemen's poles, now swinging far out across the stage, or making utterance in her best Bankhead baritone, or looking for just a second like grandmother turning into the wolf. But for all that, granny's not up to a whole evening, while Midgie Purvis is scarcely alive for half...