Word: twist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient, arched glass showcases and shelves provided hominy grits, black-eyed peas, meats, light bulbs, soft drinks, laundry soap, fruit-jar caps, boxes of W. E. Garrett & Sons Sweet Mild Snuff, Ramon's Pink Pills, leaf twist tobacco, spools of J. & P. Coats thread and a hundred other items. As America's citizens gossiped around the four-foot, coal-fired iron stove, the talk was full of Christmas doings...
When the time came to hand out the $50,000 first prize, it was won by a simple roll with the fanciest name of all-the "water-rising nut twist." The winner: Mrs. Ralph E. Smafield, 32, wife of a Detroit electrical engineer. The recipe, as expected, was a family treasure, which Mrs. Smafield got from her mother who "got it 25 years ago from a friend in Wisconsin." Pillsbury labeled it top secret, saved it for publication later...
Connoisseur Gaits. In the ring, the ringmaster called for a walk and Wing slowed down, though still strutting. Teater gave him a thank-you tap on the head. At the call for the "slow gait," Teater gave a twist on the snaffle rein and Wing moved into a gliding, four-beat amble...
...models and I don't need them any more." He had imparted an oriental delicacy to such details as the hair and toes, but generally slurred over the major elements that better draftsmen are apt to emphasize: the thrust of a knee or elbow, the twist of a torso or the solid bulge of a thigh. Shining out against deep black backgrounds, his nudes had more flow than form...
...Twist is not what recommends "Chicago Deadline." Neither is Alan Ladd, nor, for that matter, Donna Reed, both of whom are starred in the film. What the picture does offer is a good plot with plenty of suspense, and, in due course, lots of action...