Word: contrivedness
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In the moorland town of Macclesfield, Housewife Hannah Wright was out of control. Many an officially contrived British wartime makeshift had annoyed her. But wartime corsets made her writhing mad. Last week she sent a letter to Daily Express Columnist William Barkley. Wrote angry Mrs. Wright:
Solemn-faced Yank infantrymen in Normandy looked up in astonishment as a wide-smiling officer leaned out of a speeding jeep and waved. The doughboys did not know whether to wave back, salute, or just yell; some contrived to do all three. They looked at one another and grinned: "The...
There were other irritations. Slick, sleek Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, big-time oilman, banker and part owner of the prewar pro-Fascist Paris Jour, had contrived to slip out of Algiers, turn up in Madrid. With him was Jean Rigaud, long his secretary, fixer and crony and a member of the...
German troops, poised along the Atlantic Wall, got a peremptory order to kill their 300,000 tame rabbits, bred during the past year as an escape from boredom and garrison rations. Reason for the slaughter: invasion bombs and shells might turn the cottontails loose, set them to setting off the...
And in playing love scenes Ingrid Bergman has no contemporary equal. She appears not only to know the emotion and how to make it come to life on the screen, but also to realize, as no other screen actress does, that love is made up of kinds of candor, force...