Word: toe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making her look arresting though fully clothed. Cried Galateri: "In 1953 Sophia was not yet refined and spoke an incomprehensible Neapolitan dialect. She didn't even know how to walk. She had to be educated, taught to walk and not to talk. I redressed her from head to toe and civilized her!" What was Galateri's reward for playing Pygmalion? Muttered he: "She gave me a photograph of herself, signed 'To my great dressmaker...
...Washington needs a stage that can accommodate ballet. Said Kirwan: "You have to chloroform the people to get 500 to look at a ballet. Don't let anybody kid you on that score. It takes a lot of good courage to sit and watch somebody go into a toe dance. I am like Oliver Wendell Holmes. He said, 'Give me burlesque...
...cautious man, about to plunge into uncertain waters, first tests the temperature with an exploratory toe. Last week, playing the part of an affably pudgy big toe, Soviet ex-Premier Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov arrived in London to test the temperature of British hospitality as diplomatic advance man for the forthcoming visit of Communist Bigwigs Bulganin and Khrushchev...
Aided by "king-size" washcloths, spinach diets, "pedicure tools" and "Queen Bee Cream," she reduces the large, wholesome hips to mere skin and bone, prunes away the buxom midriff, buttresses the sags and fills the open pores. What's left is vigorously sprayed from head to toe with enchanting "fragrances" and left to its own devices, e.g., "If you have an old coffee grinder, fill it with ivy." Only the most hardened men ("see also husbands") could get through this book without "hands, shaking from nervousness...
Having succeeded, over the past few years, in doing your part in the "hatchet job" on Toe McCarthy, you have now decided to try your best in mocking and smearing another great American, Bill Jenner of Indiana . . . You imply that Jenner's charge of George Marshall being a "front man for traitors was untrue. Yet, in using these words, he was being kind to George Marshall, for the record, fully documented by McCarthy, Jenner and others, shows that it was Marshall, Acheson, Jessup and others of the same mode of thinking who sold China down the river...