Word: blushes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...blush for you and your "G.B.S." feature. For the first time in my years of reading TIME, I was unable to finish an article. The author, may he always be nameless, is a diddler in humbug...
...Faulkner's latest novel and the fairest, most graceful estimate yet of Fellow Critic Van Wyck Brooks's work. Sometimes his literary snobbishness leads Wilson into his most readable and most amusing writing. "Ambushing a Best-Seller" will make readers of the trashier kinds of historical novels blush for themselves and the authors who provide their fare; "What Became of Louis Bromfield" is fair criticism of a popular writer, but cruel enough to double as a pitiless obituary...
Gloria Swanson, in a role which, at first blush, seems to hew ticklishly close to her own lifeline, gets a chance to mimic a parasol-twirling Mack Sennett bathing beauty, to impersonate Charlie Chaplin (as she did in 1924's Manhandled) and to burst into dazzling emotional pyrotechnics. It is as juicy a part as any actress could hope for, and Actress Swanson squeezes the last drop from...
...Open Women's Purses.." Certain words in ads and sales talks are "repulsive" to women, he said. Examples: habit, bra, leathery, sticky, parched, calisthenics, crust, matron, clingy, model. Good sales words, which "appeal to women's hearts, emotions and vanities": poise, charm, graciousness, dainty, twinkle, hope, blush, bloom, bachelor, crisp, fairness, garden...
Sister Ruth skips quickly over the political blush that came into her cheekbones and Mike's in 1946, when the Communist Party publicly booted them out for "left deviationism." Despite their poignant cries of distress, the party kept the door locked, Author McKenney and her husband in outer darkness. Says she now: "A dismal political row . . . The whole thing was a mistake...