Word: brooked
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...cinemaddicts will stand up to cheer these tender graces, but fewer will want to miss those of a Fairbanks find: a 23-year-old, Tahiti-born "Tyrolean blonde" named Paule Croset. Her performance (as a Dutch farm girl) is as clear as a brook, and audiences may well object that the camera does not linger longer on her cool, inviting beauty...
...people, to Dr. Bruch (5 ft. 8 in., 145 lbs.), are not the placid and jolly folks they are generally reputed. Their good humor, she thinks, is a pose-a thin veneer over a greedy, irritable personality that will not brook any denial of its wants...
...broke out in a rash of red-white-&-blue bunting. While 10,000 enthusiasts besieged the Secretariat for tickets to the great International Floor Show (only 30 visitors would be admitted the first day), Tarrytown's Fire Department, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Kiwanis Club of Bound Brook (N.J.) and Manhattan's sleek Bryn Mawr and Vassar Clubs all planned bus trips to Flushing Meadow...
...More Bumping. Lord Beaver-brook's London Daily Express ran the most fascinating story of the gruesome week. One refugee, it reported, "was trailed by the feet down the 30-ft. gangway, his head bumping as he went. This caused a group of American Jewish correspondents to hurl themselves against the wire netting around the press enclosure shouting protests. They were rebuked by a correspondent from the United Press, who told them: 'Remember you are here as reporters, not as sympathizers or propagandists...
...Marshall himself paid a 30-minute visit to Lake Success, shook hands all around, signed an agreement on U.N. rights & privileges at its future site in Manhattan. In New York City, Mayor William O'Dwyer called on the citizens to join in prayer for U.N. In the Bound Brook, NJ. area, 7,856 people signed a scroll declaring their support of the Charter...