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...storm broke, instantly, violently, as if with one light touch theologians had gone up in spontaneous combustion. The mildly questioning monk turned into a national hero. Rough German humor entered his manner: "If I break wind in Wittenberg," he said, "they smell it in Rome." Soon he boomed his great battle cries: "I have been born to war, and fight with factions and devils. [I] am the rough forester to break a path and make things ready...
...Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
...Johnson C. Smith University, was walking down the street with a friend of her father's. The crowd, screaming, swarmed around her. It taunted her, pointed at her hair, stuck fingers up behind her head to resemble horns, held its nose as if against a bad smell. "Spit on her," screeched Mrs. Warlick. Some did. Dorothy, a tall and pretty girl, walked head high toward the school...
...innovator who emancipated the feminine silhouette," transforming it from undulating, feminine curves to flapper angularities with emphasis on comfort, jersey, pearls, the triangular scarf, the pleated skirt, shawls, colored gloves for night parties, and cloche hats for that come-hither look -and Chanel No. 5 for that come-hither smell. In a baffling statement of first principles, the woman who banished the waistline, eliminated hips and deflated the bosom, announced: "The most important thing is to look feminine." Confusing the issue still more, Coco added, "The only line is the straight line...
...Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...