Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monstrously innocent Emily is terrifying. In the play (because she has to be toned down) she is merely terrified. Similarly all the other children gain in cuteness, lose in acuity, turn physical handsprings instead of moral somersaults. Hence the strange, remote world of the pirate ship does not blend with the stranger, even more remote world of childhood...
...develops a rich comic realism. His conventional pinstripes and orgiastic ties, his scuffed luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip and Daumier. Paul Stewart, rescued from expert portrayals of smooth crooks, makes a small part as a newshawk the best thing in Government Girl...
...shrewdly plotted blend of detection and intrigue, and a thick cut above the average mystery yarn in content and writing...
There is some great smelling going on in Cambridge, Mass. It has to do, among other things, with spices. One of the most difficult things to reproduce in the laboratory is a spice. A natural spice is an extremely subtle blend of many ingredients, and the absence of even a trace of a key ingredient may make a big difference in odor and taste. Therefore, attempts to find out how to synthesize spices by chemical analysis have not been successful. But an inventive Cambridge chemist named Ernest Charlton Crocker has just produced three synthetic spices very close to the real...
...Navy wife wrote: "My husband . . . wants a child. I do not. ... I don't want to drag around alone during those miserable nine months. . . . Am I just a selfish female?" Mary called the writer "harebrained," said: "My immediate reaction . . . is a blend of nausea and dismay...