Word: amissed
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...audience, hardened to Hollywood interpretations of the arts, was not much surprised. But they saw that something was amiss when a stage manager appeared in the right wing. The dancer reversed her field, went bounding back across the stage, flinging her arms and pirouetting. As she passed behind the 78-year-old Maestro a second time, he spun completely around, stood dumfounded. "Stupida!" he exclaimed...
...most glamorous men in the world. . . ." He "sends chills down feminine spines." The press book urges household editors to mull over Pinza's recipe for Verona fish pudding; farm editors are assured that he is a poultry breeder. Pinza fans, under the spell of their hero, see nothing amiss in this ballyhoo: they consider him every bit as good as the overblown Pinza publicity says...
James Dunn makes a comeback playing Johnny, the singing waiter, who is supposed to win the family bread but somehow forgets on the way from bar to bar. He is Irish enough, but behind that genial smile a little more substantial warmth would not go amiss. He is certainly adequate, and so is Dorothy McGuire, though she is branded for life as "Claudia...
...Britons last week chuckled over Punch Almanack for 1945, they saw nothing amiss: Punch, survivor of four wars and a score of Prime Ministers, was still a grinning replica of themselves. Founded in 1841 in imitation of the French Le Charivari, Punch or the London Charivari is less a funny magazine than a gently distorted mirror for Britons. Seeing his idiosyncrasies pleasantly caricatured in it, John Bull can laugh and feel satisfied-whether or not the world laughs with...
...named "Alice" from which the staff for 40 years had had afternoon tea; 2) the paper's yellowed, irreplaceable morgue; 3) all the week's copy, a disaster that was repaired so deftly in three days of wild staff work that subscribers discovered that something had been amiss only when the bombing was announced weeks later...