Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play, now whimsically, now racily, now sentimentally, keeps turning throughout many scenes. Sound instinct in Playwright Osborn prevents the story from getting mawkish or unwieldy. A lot of salty cussing on the old man's part gives the play feet as well as wings. And an extremely cute seven-year-old (Peter Holden) makes everything seem innocent and wholesome...
...Hollywood names descended on Washington in general, Eleanor Roosevelt in particular. Mrs. Roosevelt displaying what she insists is not a modified bob but merely a close side trim (see cut), introduced some of them to her husband, obliged with photographs and luncheons. Janet Gaynor, the President observed, was as "cute as a button...
Recalling that Dictator Stalin officially "claimed a quantitative fulfillment of 93.7%" for the First Five-Year Plan, Mr. Lyons analyzes in a chapter the figures on which this is based, discusses many a "cute piece of arithmetical legerdemain" used by Kremlin economists. "That the Plan has been accepted even by hostile capitalist economists as on the whole 'successful' shows the gullibility and naivete of those who deal in cold figures instead of living realities...
...cute" would be fatal to a serious word and "jimple" is simply senseless...
Then Mary Cheffey, in the play the secret bride of a V.M.I. first-classman, burst in the room: "What is this, an interview? How cute!" She smiled at a delicate question and said: "I'm used to being pregnant eight time a week, but I get embarrassed when the audience laughs...