Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sophisticates have let us down." The theme of Allegro is a simple, minor-key faith shared by many Americans: a kind of puzzled sympathy for the puzzled ("Poor Joe! The older you grow, the harder it is to know . . ."). Oscar is a sentimentalist who is repelled by the materialistic din of big city living. One lyric in Allegro says bitterly...
...denizens of din...
...hours of it-was in its fourth Manhattan week (MGM cheerfully estimated that it would take in another $5 million to add to its already prodigious $32 million). For five midsummer weeks, the Palace advertised "a repertory of memorable motion pictures," including Love Affair (1939), Top Hat (1935), Gunga Din (1939), The Informer (1935), The Spanish Main (1945) and The Bells of St. Mary's. Elsewhere in Manhattan, moviegoers could see Charles Laughton in Henry the Eighth (1933), Fredric March in Les Miserables (1935), Bette Davis in Marked Woman (1937), Orson Welles in Citizen Kane...
...Prince Abdullah said he had not yet signed any concessions. The oil industry's best guess was that Prince Abdullah had promised one, but first had to go home to get it sanctioned by his xenophobic father, crusty, many-wived Imam Yahya bin Mohamed bin Hamid el Din, 77, called "the world's most independent monarch...
...press has tended to discount its own validity, and, as a result, the morale of its readers is low. They have been fed on too constant a diet of superlatives and excitements. . . . From public slogans and party platforms, shrill editorials and spiced-up news, to the insistent din and pretense of advertising, the reader . . . comes to believe that the careers of newsmen depend on the illicit transformation of narrative into melodrama. . . . He imagines propaganda both where it is and where...