Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resist throwing in a little war drama these days, even when Deanna Durbin's the better half of the oil and water combination. Universal's number one box office attraction plays the part of a China missionary's daughter who brings a band of orphans, (the boys are cute and the girls are mournful), to America. The recent best-seller "Keys of the Kingdom" won our hearts on behalf of Chinese missionaries, and there is absolutely no reason for disliking their daughters. But the story doesn't begin to perk up until Barry Fitzgerald arrives on the scene, and Deanna...
...look at the Metropolitan Opera's button-cute, doll-sized Brazilian Soprano Bido Sayao were the concertgoers of Macon, Ga. Day before the diva's scheduled appearance came a cancellation from her manager: "Reason is, she didn't like the travel accommodations. . . She said she positively would not travel in ordinary Pullman accommodations with the train full of soldiers. . . . I was powerless to persuade...
...second period found the Albic Everts, Dick Harding, Johnny Burton triumverate at its best, however, and these three comined for two markers in little over a minute. Caleb Loring and Dick Mechem contributed cute solos later in the session to make it 6 to 2, and after Army tallied again on a quick rush, the Crimson matched the score with another Everts-Burton goal...
...think that's silly. All Flip said was that he had a cute babe with him, and that's the straight stuff. Dowst got a first sentence that made sense, and then dissolved into gibberish. There's still time. Lot's beat those stuck-up Boston papers. Let's go to press...
...Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...