Word: towelled
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...story. They are a rueful twosome, about as happy as a pair of viruses. Actress Lawrence's musicomedy gifts are under smothering wraps, and the only unwrapped presents of the evening are Orson Bean and Phyllis Newman. Fighting hotel-room eviction by wearing nothing but a towel (they can't throw her out nude), Comedienne Newman has one of the two numbers that threaten to wake up the show, I Was a Shoo-in, a hilariously mimed saga of how she missed being Miss America. Comic Bean, a twitchy bundle of broken watchsprings, has the other: he begs...
...fall day in 1900, in a swank Manhattan apartment, a trusted butler clamped a chloroformed towel across the face of his master. So died William Marsh Rice, 84, leaving some $10 million-most of it to his lawyer. To his old friends in Texas, where Yankee Merchant Rice had made his pile, the will seemed strange. They thought that Rice, a widower with no children, had planned to leave nearly all his money to the founding of a college in Houston...
...going to whip me?" The man replies: ''Why should I?" A light wakes in the child's eyes. When his stepfather leaves the bathroom, Seryozha goes shyly to the washbowl, makes a tentative little splutter of his own, and then dries himself on the same towel his stepfather used...
...Mirror sent her packing five months ago. In her place last week appeared "Daughter of Jane," an ectoplasmic 16-year-old who has clearly inherited her mother's inability to keep buttoned up. "Her fundamental attributes," said one Mirror man demurely, "are always covered by a towel." Occasionally the towel is about the size of an un-Sanforized dishcloth. Britons brightened at Jane's return, but the august Guardian, fully aware that Jane had wed Georgie a scant 22 months ago, was aghast at the sudden appearance of a teen-aged daughter. "Can it be parthenogenesis?" asked...
...Confederacy, and the white, four-faced clock on the courthouse cupola tolls the hours in perfect time. But even at high noon, Crawfordville has a ghostly air. The stores are empty. The moviehouse closed down years ago. The town dentist and doctor have moved away. This month a towel manufacturer talked of putting new life into Crawfordville by starting a local factory that would employ 250 white women-only to find that the entire county could not supply the workers...