Word: fingernails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final" farewell tour of the U.S., Spain's youthful (64) Gypsy Vicente Escudero, grandest master of the flamenco, made an unlikely bivouac in Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, paused between stomping and fingernail-castanetting to reminisce about his roving life and good times. One of diminutive (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Dancer Escudero's closest barroom buddies was the late, bibulous portrayer of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero...
...Natural History ($140) and New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation ($250). With the help of two hired laborers, they found buckets of flint chips, tools and animal bones. Then Lea Wymer found something odd in the same deep stratum: a bit of black stuff the size of her fingernail which looked like rock but felt much lighter. A few days later she and Bertram and John all found more. They took the collection to Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum of Natural History, who is the leading authority on Swanscombe man. Last week Dr. Oakley announced that...
...race. Slowly they pecked away at the lead. They scored one run in the third, another in the fifth, two in the seventh. Casey began to worry about those lost chances. He juggled his line-up like a man possessed. Now Martin was out with a torn fingernail; Berra was gone with an upset stomach, and Charley Silvera was back of the plate. Starting the ninth, the Yanks were only two thin runs in front...
...year is 1931. Actress Harris, as Sally, is a café singer of doubtful merit but nothing else about her merits any doubt. She is an amoral Junior Mistress with green fingernail polish, a nymph in sheet's clothing. She drinks Prairie Oysters (one raw egg, one dash Worcestershire sauce) for breakfast, stirs her gin with vast quantities of sentimentality. Down and out, Sally meets young Christopher Isherwood, a struggling author. He offers to share his apartment with her. In gratitude, she asks: "Shall we have a drink first, or shall we go right to bed?" But Isherwood...
...Prize (by Ronald Alexander) is a modern-style romantic comedy about a bachelor boss and his young secretary. That is to say, it is never for a moment soppily romantic: against a sophisticated Manhattan background, with flecks of satiric nonsense in the air, the parties concerned keep sex at fingernail's distance in the process of arriving at marriage. There is also a modern-style fillip to the plot: by way of a TV program, the secretary becomes her boss's boss for a day-and starts him off mixing the drinks, cleaning the apartment and doing...