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...tail, weigh down the lids over her enormous snake-like eyes . . . She is cadaverously thin ... the most easily recognizable face I know and ... the most luscious . . . cheeks like huge acid pink peonies . . . eyelashes built out with hot liquid paint to look like burnt matches . . . Her sullen, discontented, rather evil rosebud of a mouth is painted the brightest scarlet . . . shiny as ... strawberry...
Barbara Ann, with a peaches-&-cream complexion, saucer-size blue eyes and rosebud mouth, is certainly pretty enough. Her light brown hair (golden now that she bleaches it) falls pageboy style on her shoulders. She weighs a trim, girlish 107 Ibs. neither as full-bosomed as a Hollywood starlet nor as wide-hipped as most skaters. She looks, in fact, like a doll which is to be looked at but not touched. But Barbara Ann Scott is no fragile mammet. She is the women's figure-skating champion of the world...
Mayor Riley is probably typical enough. He used to sell tires, found politics more fun, was elected mayor in 1940. He wears sailor straws ("boaters" in Britain), flashy double-breasted suits, a red-rosebud and an American Legion pin in his lapel. He likes clambakes, gag pictures and calling people by their first names. As mayor he is noisy, hard-working and efficient, should be a gaudy contrast to the traditional English mayor who should be efficient, hard-working but definitely not noisy...
...Vaudeville houses and cabarets of the '80s and '90s echoed with tearjerkers: Cradle's Empty, Baby's Gone (Later parodied in Bottle's Empty, Father's Tight), A Little Faded Rosebud in Our Bible, The Little Lost Child, The Letter That Never Came. Thoroughly popular was Felix McGlennon's That Is Love...
Washington newshawks, case-hardened characters who measure a public man by the probable length of his obituary, last week sentimentally chipped in $7, bought a seven-pound, four-layer White Mountain cake topped with white, pink and green icing, with 21 large pink candles rakishly atilt in pink rosebud holders...