Word: beretful
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Wearing his familiar navy-blue beret, offstage Fisticuffer Johnson told newshawks he thought old friends like Geraldine Farrar, Lina Cavalieri and Lucrezia Bori were as pleasing to the eye as the artistes of the current season. Of Tetrazzini, whom he considered the greatest woman singer, Mr. Johnson remarked, "They'll never replace her. She was fat and clumpy, but she needed not beauty...
...Warren William as a ferociously whimsical detective, Bette Davis, last year's Academy Award winner, in the trifling role of a jewel thief, and a platinum blonde newcomer named Marie Wilson as a squeaky secretary. Typical shot: the detective rebuking a baby-faced gunman for wearing a beret...
Pushing back his blue beret and twirling his spectacles, the bearded dean of British banking was then asked if some of the gold which caused the expansion in bank reserves would not soon return to Europe. Expressing a facetious wish which the Reserve Board feels will be fulfilled in all seriousness, Governor Norman replied : "I hope not. You can keep it. We had all the trouble digging it out of the ground, but you can keep it. You are too rich over here, but you can keep your gold...
...France one sample of how it proposed to get striking workers out of the factories. With 80,000 stayin strikers still on strike and farm laborers threatening a strike of their own, sole employer victory was the decision of a Pau court that strikers' occupation of a Pau beret factory was "illegal...
...tournament since, got a 66 in his first qualifying round, a 69 in his first championship round and then, as usual, slumped. A strange young Texan named Joe Ezar astounded a Scottish gallery less by his qualifying scores (73 & 75) than by the way he made them, wearing a beret which he tossed in the air after good shots, scarcely glancing at his putts, wisecracking loudly to his caddy. Colonel William Lawson Little, watching his famed son & namesake try to win his second major British title of the season, found that a $1,200 letter of credit and several cashable...