Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With 40 seenes, 75 distinct characters, and upwards of 20 male and female singers and dancers, the 'play" gives a glimpse now and then of possibilities, but the preponderance of slaphappy dullness will probably cast it in the role of the most tremendous flop in Broadway history. Unsolved mystery number one is whether Welles backed the show himself or dragged in some incredibly gullible and affluent soul to share the preposterous burden...
...Phil Murray, sensing a challenge to his control of C.I.O., made a speech to his loyal auto workers, deliberately brushed off the shocked and furious Reuther while he saluted the beaming Thomas as "this great big guy for whom I have a distinct fondness." Then Murray got out of town...
Into exile, pauper fashion (first in France; later, in the U.S.), went spare, spry Simplicissimus Editor Franz Schoenberner. Confessions of a European Intellectual is the witty, intelligent story of his life-a story whose capacity for hard sense and an all too rare humor gives it a distinct place in refugee literature. As befits the outlook of an editor of satire, it contains no awed descriptions of intimate meetings with famous people; as an intellectual confession it confesses nothing but disrespect for overintellectualized confessions...
...models stalked back & forth Though many of the 274 designs still stressed utility, a distinct shift to the sophistication of New York and Paris was perceptible. One fetching outfit might have come straight off the floor of a Paris salon-a form-fitting dinner gown in cool grey with an austere neckline and sweeping sleeves caught in narrow cuffs...
There are in St. Moritz, Switzerland, two distinct and independent runs: 1) the Bobsleigh Run (St. Moritz Bobsleigh Club) and 2) the Cresta Run (St. Moritz Tobogganing Club, founded...