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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the other creative works that attracted considerable visitor comment: two oils (Blue Daisies and Flowers) by Bea Lillie; a Hoagy Carmichael landscape (Miami Skyline...
...guileless (in real life, the very poor are often very shrewd); the bad people are too simply bad. The camera work, highly accomplished of its romantic kind, drips with purple adjectives; it is profusely overappreciative of images that are beautiful enough to be merely looked at, without urging or comment...
Members of the Marshall Plan Committee will "stick by their program" but withheld, pending a meeting today, official comment on their position should E.R.P. by-pass...
...Ypsilanti, had had dates with Margaret when he worked for the State Department as an interpreter. The engagement rumor caught up with him at a newspaper convention in Chicago. Was it true? Handy said he would have to make "one or two long-distance calls" before he could comment. Later, after news of the White House denial reached Chicago, he said: "I think I'll stand on that...
...social snobs, Runyon (who spent $50 on his own shoes) could pause to comment on the fancy shoes being worn by the Marquess of Queensberry; for hero-worshipers he had the right tone of awe ("Now here comes J. Pierpont Morgan himself . . . [and] you see the lightning behind the brows, and sense the thunder in the voice"). To the honest, indignant poor, Runyon gave descriptions of Capone's ill-gotten silken underwear...