Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, he added to the list of things he admired: the wintry hills of Vermont and New Hampshire; the old Dewey family home in Lebanon, N.H., now occupied by Farmer Daniel E. Lahaye; Mrs. Lahaye's range; the Lahayes' year-old daughter ("She's as cute as a bug"); and the snow-covered New Hampshire cemetery where the Dewey ancestors are buried. "Old cemeteries fascinate me," he said...
...comics had become a maker & breaker of publishing empires. The New York Daily News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate worked out the formula (it was the late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...
...only one played as originally written, was technically the worst; in both first and third movements the orchestra fell apart, violins didn't play together and so on. And yet, the idea was there. Schubert is easy to play wrong; it can be slushy or dry or cute; to get the unique Schubert characteristic of Romantic Classicism and complex simplicity is difficult. But the orchestra, despite its momentary technical amnesia, got that blend perfectly...
...Editor wants to find out what Dartmouth is going to do at Harvard during the game weekend, so he decides that someone goes to Hanover and finds out. But the Editor wants to do it in a subtle way, that will make the Crimsons look cute and maybe make the Dartmouths look pretty dull...
Family Man. The Hammersteins have a house in Manhattan, but he prefers Highland Farm, which was furnished by Mrs. Hammerstein, a professional interior decorator ("We didn't get cute"). There he rises at about 7:30 and gets a massage by Peter Moen, a bald, powerful Norwegian, without whom he refuses to go anywhere (partly because Peter is homesick, Hammerstein has decided to take a trip to Scandinavia next month...