Word: averment
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Daniel Boone (RKO), the week's second item of Americana, was originally produced as a George O'Brien Western. It turned out better, partly because it is a relatively faithful adaptation of history, partly because Cinemactor O'Brien's chesty musculature fits perfectly the aver age conception of famed Long Hunter Boone, a middle-sized man who, wrote Audubon, "appeared gigantic...
...more subtle job is being done by N. W. Aver & Son. Inc. On its own hook this Philadelphia advertising agency is running every week on the cover of Printers' Ink a brief story about the accomplishments of some industry ("Mother Is On A Five-Day Week"), the importance of some business practice ("Joe And The Corporate Surplus"), the value of industrial research ("White Rats And Healthy Babies"). The copy goes in for such facts as that U. S. citizens have added more than two inches to their stature in the past 50 years, that it requires about...
...another at short notice. His wife is comely onetime Actress Polly Platt. In Paris, eleven years ago, the first of their three children was born. Around the World in Eleven Years is a child's-eye-view of the family's subsequent travels, written, so Parents Abbe aver, entirely by the children; and printed unchanged, except for corrections in spelling. Readers last week were whooping with delight over many a Young Abbe observation of elders' ways, were reminded more than once of Daisy Ashford's famed Young Visiters. These little pitchers had very big ears...
...mixed races of the Greek islands and of Thrace and Eastern Macedonia on the mainland, whence come Greece's crack troops, the kilted Evzones. For money he had his wife's fortune, estimated at $15,000,000, inherited from her father. He soon had the armored cruiser Aver off and the cruiser-minelayer Helle, either one of which is capable of blowing the rest of the Greek Navy out of the water. His best card was his battle cry that he was saving the Republic from the monarchist machinations of Premier Tsaldaris...
What kept the balance for the Government were airplanes, but they were mostly light pursuit planes, good for strafing troops but unable to carry big enough bombs to hurt the Aver off much. The "pure Greeks" of the mainland were loyal to the Government but apathetic. And the Government command was divided between Tsaldaris' two formidable partners, wily Monarchist John Metaxas, Minister without portfolio, and a rough-&-ready soldier, General George Kondylis, Minister of War, who promptly took charge in the field and had himself promoted to Field Marshal...