Word: choicestance
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Hollywood's leading citizens, aglitter and atwitter one evening last week in the little Academy Award Theater, gulped when they heard the announcement. To Britain, target of many a ripe tomato for its quotas on U.S. films, went the choicest plum of U.S. filmdom: the Oscar for the year's best picture. The winner: J. Arthur Rank's Hamlet (TIME, June...
While the man in the street curses and stumbles in the slush, the ski team is getting ready to move into its annual period of between-term activity on New England's choicest slopes...
There were good reasons for joining. In Russia the choicest careers are open only to members of the Communist Party (some 6,300,000), and the Komsomol is the recruiting ground of the party. A Komsomol song tells who can belong...
Radiomen, who vie viciously with one another to decorate their Christmas programs with boughs of Hollywood, admit that they have all been outvied this season by a boyish Roman Catholic priest. The Rev. Patrick Peyton had under his Christmas tree two of radio's choicest sugarplums: his popular, weekly Family Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., Mutual), with a performance of Anatole France's Our Lady's Juggler, and a special, Peyton-inspired, star-studded dramatization of the Nativity, The Joyful Hour, aired last week...
...Riddle, once refused a $1,000,000 offer for his wonder horse. Riddle retired him to stud in the prime of his career. "Improving the breed," now a worn-penny phrase spoken cynically around the tracks, had meaning in Man o' War's case. Only the choicest mares were bred to Man o' War-at $5,000 a try. The results were top quality, as with everything...