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When the young have been banished, and Melvyn Douglas, Polly Rowles and Philip Loeb perform as the husband, the wife and the bank president, the play takes on a nice aimless, bantering good humor. But things are a bit askew when a plot must go out for a walk before the play...
...them with this extreme accuracy is fantastically difficult. When measured by these high standards, even massive steel bars seem as flexible as rubber. Thin films of oil are as yielding as deep quicksand. The slightest change of temperature makes the machine change its dimensions and thus rule the lines askew...
...thinks nothing of flying 7,000 miles in four days, starting his sessions with Sears store managers at 5:45 a.m. sharp, and whirling through stores, speeches, conferences, until everyone else is ready to drop. His clothes are often rumpled, his shoes unshined, his collar open and his tie askew. He wears a battered hat atop his silvery head and a topcoat that looks as if it came off the pile at Sears-which it did. He munches, instead of smokes, cigarettes. Despite his breakneck pace, Wood is still pink-cheeked and healthy...
...High & Mighty. When King George's only sister, the Princess Royal, distracted at the news of her brother's death, had rushed into her mother's apartment, hair askew, 84-year-old Queen Mary had told her: "Please do your hair properly when you come before the Queen." More than anyone, perhaps, Queen Mary was conscious of the great destiny that had come to her granddaughter, the princess whom she had so often reproved and scolded in the past. When Elizabeth entered Clarence House, Queen Mary was waiting, perfectly prepared, to curtsy before her. The Queen talked...
When Bob Taft walked into the high-ceilinged Republican conference room in the Senate Office Building, he faced 230 reporters and 50 photographers-the largest press conference ever held on Capitol Hill. His blue tie slightly askew, the Ohio Senator made his way slowly from the door to a microphone-laden table, stopping to let photographers shoot and chuckling at their antics. "All right, let's get started," he said.. Then he made the announcement everybody expected: he will seek the Republican nomination for President...