Word: navel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What intelligent or legitimate connection can there be between Lena Horne's songs or Gypsy Rose Lee's navel and the election campaigns of responsible officials and progressive legislators? Jo Davidson's and Hannah Dorner's substitution of theatrical ballyhoo for concrete, vital political issues is a stupid and sordid insult to the voters of this nation. The work of other such ICCASPeople as Daily Worker Writer Howard Fast readily attests to Communist Front activity and possible Moscow affiliations...
Everybody's in the Act. The roster of ICCASP's Manhattan and Hollywood chapters might have sprung directly from a mad director's loveliest dream. Frank Sinatra is one of its hardest-working speakers. It can call on Gypsy Rose Lee to bare her navel and William Rose Benét to write a script. Lena Horne will sing at any rally and Walter Huston will recite the Gettysburg Address. Fredric March belongs, and so do Eddie Cantor, Charles Boyer, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton and Robert Young...
...earth's astronomical navel* was about to shift its position. Britain's Royal Observatory was preparing for its first permanent move in 271 years. Left behind in Greenwich (now part of London) would be 1) the original building designed by Sir Christopher Wren, and 2) the "prime meridian of longitude," which passes through the observatory grounds. The "Meridian of Greenwich" could not be moved; every modern map in the world had been drawn with it as a base line...
...chance (as amusement editor) to go on-if not up-from there. For a time, with impish delight, he walked the tight wire between good fun and bad taste. On his pub-crawling beat, sipping an occasional dark-rum Daiquiri, he ogled the rhinestone in a stripteaser's navel, tattled on the Duchess of Windsor's powder-room behavior (she left the maid...
Molotov looked up from his navel, and the other negotiators took heart...