Word: corduroy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White Plains, N.Y. divorce court, Coast Guard Lieut. Commander Jack Dempsey sat deadpanned and massaged the knuckles of one fist; his wife, full-fashioned, ex-Musicomedienne Hannah Williams, in a beige suit, tan corduroy coat, red gloves, red-heeled shoes and considerable eye shadow, fiddled with her sunglasses and turned various colors. A cook, an elevator boy, a fight manager, a maid took their turns on the witness stand, told stories of parties at redheaded Hannah's apartment...
...makes a good technical try for pace, but never really achieves it Russell's and MacMurray's thanks-for-the-memory love junket is as bland as anything the Hays office has swallowed in recent months. But mainly the picture is as uneven as a war-torn corduroy road. Once, its taste graph dips so low as to show a group of flyers in a back room saluting Rosalind Russell with song...
...farmer, wearing a long-billed hunting cap and corduroy pants stuffed into five-buckle arctics, shook the rain from his shoulders, entered the Nanty Glo State Bank across the street. In Suchman's jewelry store, a few doors from the bank, a miner's wife looked over the slim stock of watches, hunting a gift for her soldier son. The pillar of smoke that came from the main stack of the Heisley mine (one of the three within the town's limits) fused into the rain, flattened, hung over the landscape in a grey pall. The hands...
...sucked into the hinterland of advertising"-bridge, cocktail parties, etc. For some reason he imagined that the way to get on with his job was to make himself socially objectionable. He expanded his mustache (a fixture on & off from his 19th year) to a full beard, wore dirty brown corduroy suits, bought a yellow chow dog to ride beside him in his bathtub-sized yellow Renault roadster. He became socially unsought-after. A Hollywood urchin finally shamed him out of it with the old standby: "Get a horse...
Vast Land. Her energy and courage were extraordinary. She traveled thousands of miles by coach, bumped over "corduroy" roads, put up at strange cabins and hostels. She talked and listened to statesmen, slaves, Abolitionists, jailbirds, men, women & children, in the East, West and South. From New Orleans she sailed up the Mississippi on the Henry Clay to Cincinnati. She was fascinated by the "sudden and overwhelming . . . perils of this extraordinary river" where "snags," "planters," and "sawyers" might "at any moment pierce the hull." Along the huge river she saw hundreds of miles of cotton and sugar fields. "[What] vast materials...