Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beneath the surface of such miscellaneous increases at consumer outlets there were more basic disturbances: price rises in both coal and steel, and an increase in the price of General Motors automobiles (see BUSINESS...
...specimen is still lacking to make the collection complete, admitted Rothenberg yesterday. For months he has been passing the Lampoon building, enviously staring at the magnificent wishbone concealed beneath the plumage of a second theskiornia which adorns the Bow Street tile palacer...
Hedda's Whoppers. It has been suggested that, for all Hedda's slash & dash, her wild but indisputable charm and her whizzing success at her job, the head beneath the hats is something of an air pocket. In her very first column, she perpetrated a lulu to the effect that Greta Garbo, who was soon, she said, to marry Leopold Stokowski, had undergone inspection by Stokowski's patrician Philadelphia relatives. Stokowski has no patrician Philadelphia relatives. A rudimentary instinct for checking sources would have spared Hedda that blooper...
Danger & Nerves. Hopp & Linder made a substrata survey of fields where there was no protective covering, discovered that all earthworm life was snuffed out in a single freezing spell. But in a burlap-covered acre, 995,000 worms survived; 1,610,000 slithered to safety beneath a protective acre of hay. The conservationists recommend a covering of chopped cornstalks or manure, or a quick-growing catch crop, to blanket the worms and tide them through the winter...
...very funny scene in which he pretends to be mad is Congreve's best, and Gielgud's ability to handle more serious roles is shown in his tragi-comie declaration of love to Angelica. Pamela Brown plays the latter with the necessary restraint to make the character credible beneath the neat stylization. Her quiet, satirical mugging helps give the standard part another dimension. Expertly entangled among the various intrigues of plot are Robert Flemyng and Jessie Evans, as two rather rough-hewn characters, and John Kidd as an old many-times-cuckolded astronomer...