Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wants to "dabble quietly before taking the plunge." The big money does hot excite her; she lives quite comfortably on her ?20 a week-top pay for The Company of Four-shares a house with two other women, a composer and a ballet dancer. The "horrible din" of their combined professional exercises doubtless explains why husband Philip Barrett continues to produce his road shows...
Through the din of debate, three facts emerged: 1) the M.R.P. had resolved to conciliate the Communists to the limit, in order to preserve M.R.P.-Socialist-Communist coalition government; 2) the crux of the debate was the question of presidential powers; 3) behind the question of presidential powers loomed the presence of General Charles de Gaulle...
...Claude Thornhill's sedate, glossy arrangements of Warsaw Concerto, the Nutcracker Suite, and Yours Is My Heart Alone. The Sherman's smart boss Ernie Byfield let the boys play loud after 10 o'clock, but took newspaper ads to say that there would no longer be din with dinner. In Minneapolis, the late Glenn Miller's band, still among the big ten under Tex Beneke's direction, now had twelve strings (Miller's old swing band had none). Onetime circus Trumpeter Harry James, whose horn is shrillest of them all, had just completed...
Sleek, supercilious Pierre-Etienne Flan-din had four days last week in which to explain his 56-day term as Vichy's Foreign Minister. In the hot, jammed Haute Cour at Versailles, the 57-year-old former Prime Minister and prewar leader of the French Right alternately explained and extolled his political tactics of the last decade...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week left the heat and din of Nanking for breezeswept Kuling, the mountain resort which used to be China's prewar summer capital. There he shed his uniform for a comfortable gown and strolled about the clean-swept, maple-shaded streets. Nevertheless, the political temperature continued to rise and the Government's discomfiture increased...