Word: ticklishness
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...Ticklish Territory...
...story of a nudist camp (written stark naked on the scene), weather reports ("WEATHER NOTE: Bad for grandmothers"), an interview with Simone Simon. (Without a word he tickled her vigorously. When she protested but did not squeal, he said he was only testing a Hollywood report that she was ticklish.) His book, Low Man on a Totem Pole, based chiefly on risqué versions of whimsical features written for the New York World-Telegram, was a best-seller last spring...
Chile has one of the world's few remaining popular-front Governments. Hence President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, an affable and astute politician, has "one of the most ticklish jobs in the Americas." His hobby is public health and "even his small talk was about diseases." He is a great admirer of President Roosevelt. The Left calls Aguirre Cerda a "bourgeois," the Right calls him "that man," other names that Author Gunther could not print...
This synthetic U.S. folk tale, a triumphant Yankee version of Faust, was invented by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (in a short story, The Demi and Daniel Webster). A ticklish job for adaptation to the screen, it has been handled with skill and good humor by Producer-Director William Dieterle (The Story of Louis Pasteur). All That Money Can Buy is definitely superior cinema...
Just where the U.S. stands on the ticklish question of relations with a French Government that is subservient to Hitler was made a lot clearer last week. Cordell Hull made it clear in two statements. The first of them was a warning. Said forthright Mr. Hull...