Word: chapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does a devastating satire of a nightclub torch singer mugging her way through the new Alka-Seltzer anthem, I've Got the Blahs. Easy wit, in fact, is the Homelies' forte. One of the best comic commercials now running features Bill McCutcheon, an inconspicuous little chap with a Silly Putty face who gets carried away by the Greek music in an Olympic Airways jet and dances in the aisle...
...will be licensed to stick "USLTA" and "Davis Cup Team" endorsements on everything from sweat socks to sunglasses. This newest type of tennis racket was proposed by Licensing Corp. President Allan Stone, 43, who won the skeptical USLTA over by arguing that 1) the U.S. Olympic Committee has endorsed Chap Stick and other items, and 2) the royalties should reach $250,000 within two years. Says USLTA President Robert J. Kelleher: "We never really knew how much our endorsements were worth...
...chap in cloak and whiskers knifes his sister's suitor. The suitor was unwell anyway: a rival spitor gouged him in a duel before the brother came in with a stiletto. Both duelists officially die, secretly recover. Meanwhile the brother begs his sister to pretend she is going to have a child by the richer dead suitor. She pretends she is going to have one by the poorer one. The mother tries to turn her heretofore legitimate son into a bastard because he destroyed the prospective son-in-law who was her prospective lover. A pregnant nun appears...
Once there was an Englishman named Fortunatus Augustus Scudamore. He wrote atrocious Victorian melodramas, and it served him quite right when in 1907 his daughter Margaret married an actor chap named Roy Redgrave. The marriage was a bad show, but before it closed in Australia three years later, Roy and Margaret had inadvertently established a simply smashing theatrical dynasty. It has flourished in England for three decades, but within the last year the Redgraves have been recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as the first family of stage and screen: the nearest thing to the Barrymores that...
...Mormons. No rivals have yet ventured out on delegate-hunting safaris. At this stage, the not-yet-announced candidate for his party's 1968 presidential nomination needed only to make friends and influence local politicians-which Romney did with his usual energy and skill. But there was another chap along, with the same iron grey hair, rugged profile and strong delivery. This other Romney, petulant, portentous and contradictory, too often chilled the breeze...