Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dream Girl (Paramount) was a highly successful stage comedy that Elmer Rice wrote for his talented wife, Betty Field. It is about a working girl who runs an unsuccessful bookshop and has a crush on her brother-in-law. She escapes from these annoying realities in a series of glamorous daydreams-until love of a rude young book reviewer brings her back to earth...
...lights. "I don't like topside in government getting special favors," he says, "the peasants jumping out of the way and all that. I think people sort of like that stuff-but it's bad for them. Government should permeate. It shouldn't crush...
Would Abdullah use his Legion merely to occupy Arab-majority parts of Palestine, or would he try to crush the Zionist state? Like all Arab leaders, he had to make warlike noises and gestures. "I am an Arab king of an Arab state," said Abdullah recently, "and my army is an Arab army. I shall do as I please...
...Russian delegation, sore over the admission of Argentina, left the meeting. Much of the press went into a tailspin. It was a bad day, but not nearly so bad as the headlines suggested. As the delegates left the hall, TIME'S Anatole Visson got through the crush to one of the calmest men in San Francisco. "What do you think?" asked Visson. Lord Halifax bent down with a tired smile. "I don't think this is the end of the world," he said. This quotation ended TIME'S story, which may not have been the best...
...Have Your Bath." A moan went up from the crowd. By the thousands, his followers began to file by the dead man, who was draped in white khadi (homespun cotton) and sprinkled with rose petals. The crush became so great that the body was finally put on a tilted slab on an outside balcony, and bathed in floodlights so that all might see. At the head burned five lamp wicks representing the five elements-air, light, water, earth and fire...