Word: aprowl
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...Side Story actually benefits by being divorced from the original's cute, coy lyrics, which in life would not tumble trippingly from the tongues of underprivileged youth. The wide-eyed wonder of city life may never have been more vibrantly shown than among the World War II-era sailors aprowl in On the Town. The comic chase among cops, con men, thugs and bathing beauties from High Button Shoes improves upon the fizzy Mack Sennett one-reelers that inspired...
Rona Jaffe's bestselling first novel about nubile young career girls aprowl in Manhattan, The Best of Everything, was written to the specifications of the late Film Producer Jerry Wald. God knows who is responsible for this new collection of short stories in which Rona's girls suffer from serendipity in reverse-they have the gift of finding unpleasant things and situations not sought for. When these urban waifs encounter an attractive man, he's already married; if single, a homosexual; if both available and heterosexual, he is metaphorically dead...
...your April 5 references to Sadakichi Hartmann in Gene Fowler's book [Minutes of the Last Meeting]. As I knew him 20-odd years ago, Hartmann was an off-beat character who ... resembled an aged water sprite. And much of the time he imitated an old satyr aprowl. At times he could be utterly beguiling. At others, a deadbeat...