Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small birds can land on floating lily-pads. So could airplanes-if the lily-pads were big and buoyant enough...
There are enough such specialties to sink a battleship. But they keep Anchors Aweigh paced, buoyant and prettily afloat...
...Hepburn. Its plot was flimsy; it was, after all, just a simple courtship within an artificial framework, something that oriental and royal couples go through all the time. Stewart's added persiflage is amusing and unassuming. What makes "Without Love" thoroughly refreshing is the superior acting of la Hepburn, buoyant, mature, clever, with more than peaches-and-cream, and with as much sex as she can muster...
Last week Captain Earl J. Wilson, U.S.M.C. Aviation Correspondent, reported that this particular Jap effort at propaganda-with-music had been a spectacular flop. For one thing, Filipinos have grown used to the buoyant lyrics and 4/4 rhythms of Tin Pan Alley...
...were bestsellers. Parson Weems wrote them at odd moments along the road-biographies of Washington, of Franklin, of Penn and-his best book-of General Francis Marion, the "little, smoke-dried, French-phizzed" Swamp Fox. They abounded in doubtful anecdotes, unblushing fabrications and factual errors, but they were also buoyant, impulsive, racy and full of the spirit of their subjects. After Washington's death Parson Weems wrote to his publisher: "Washington, you know, is gone! Millions are gaping to read something about him. I am nearly primed and cocked...