Word: vesuviuses
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British Foreign Office, hopes to find out. Perhaps V. stands for Venezuela, and an abortive political plot of the turn of the century. Perhaps it stands for Vesuvius, or for Valletta, the capital of Malta. More likely, but not at all certainly, it is the first initial of the name of a mysterious girl tourist, Victoria Wren, who vanished in 1901 but turns up in different guises at times of riot or political intrigue. Victoria wears a glass eye whose iris is a clock face...
Anita Ekberg is 60 ft. long. She is lying down. On the great thoracic curve of her earth-mother's body there rises a bosom that suggests Vesuvius trying to whisper to Fujiyama. Ah, but she is only a paper doll. Anita has posed for a billboard photograph. In her hand is a glass of milk. A loudspeaker blares: "Drink more milk-milk-milk...
...latest, most preposterous beauty shop is a designer's powder-puffed version of what Pompeii would have looked like if Revlon had been running things before Vesuvius decided to end it all. Devised by President Charles Revson. the L. B. Mayer of the cosmetics business, the House of Revlon opened last week in the Gotham Hotel on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, "dedicated to the arts of beauty" and to the sales of the firm's products. It is also dedicated to the proposition that all women can be re-created equal...
WEST Berliners resemble the peasants who live on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. They are not easily frightened by international rumblings, sulphuric diatribes, or the hot-lava flow of Communist threats. Though their city is split in two, though they are completely surrounded by Communist territory. West Berliners view the situation calmly and glory in the nickname Insulaner-islanders...
...Mount Vesuvius was blazing in several places ... A black and dreadful cloud bursting out in gusts of igneous serpentine vapor now and again yawned open to reveal long, fantastic flames, resembling flashes of lightning, but much larger . . . Cinders fell . . . then pumice-stones too, with stones blackened, scorched and cracked by fire...