Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stopped Cold...
...taken no action on it. Under the circumstances, however, there was little he could do but approve it. For doing his assigned job well and in complete obedience to the orders of his superiors, 31-Knot Burke, for the first time in his 26-year career, had been stopped cold...
Critics of the State Department's Latin American policy noted impatiently that its "recognize-and-deplore" formula had given little but cold comfort to democrats in Venezuela, Peru and Colombia. Acheson was aware of the criticism, but he applied the formula again, apparently in an effort to show that it can sometimes get results...
...abstract wing of the show included some startlingly original pictures. Morris Kantor's Lonely Bird knit the shapes of buildings and trees together with looping lines and high-keyed colors, that were all his own. In Lee Catch's dark little Fruit Boat, with its cold blaze of lights seen across the water, abstraction and representation were happily merged. Catch's painting was one of the simplest and smallest on display, but it had size...
...instance, the tap dancing of Fred Astaire, who clicks his heels and tocs through several excellent routines. In the best of these he dances better while playing a drunk than most of the hoofers could cold sober. Throughout "Holiday Inn" Astaire plays a foil for Bing Crosby. In this film, a Paramount re-release, Crosby's voice and hairline are still intact. He sings an excellent selection of Irving Berlin tunes--"Easter Parade," "Be Careful, It's My Heart," and, of course "White Christmas." The result is like a greeting card: it has no art and no subtlety...