Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gandhi favored Hindustani, a combination of Hindi and Urdu. The creation of Pakistan, where Urdu is proposed as the official language, dispelled the dream...
...pressagent's dream, and it had been largely dreamed up by pressagents. For her busty boost to the movie Black Magic, United Artists was paying Shirley May ?1,000 ($4,000), which she could not take out of Britain. Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association had anted up some $2,500 in dollars for the exclusive rights to Shirley May's byline and to feature picture coverage. Other wire services, newspapers and magazines had assigned 80 reporters and photographers to cover Shirley...
...time, George Trevelyan's dream came true. His monumental England Under Queen Anne and his three-volume study of Garibaldi's Italy were definitive works on their periods. His History of England became a standard text on both sides of the Atlantic. Finally, at 73, "too old to write another serious history book," spindly, white-haired George Trevelyan wrote a little history of himself. By last week, from his brief Autobiography and Other Essays, now on British book counters, readers could learn just what makes a renowned historian tick...
That Midnight Kiss (M-G-M). Producer Joe ("No one's going to get sick or die in my movies") Pasternak is an expert at turning out box-office musicals (Three Daring Daughters, In the Good Old Summertime). His favorite theme is the American dream that the tot on the living-room floor may one day turn out to be another Schnabel or Flagstad. In this case, the American living room is the usual Pasternak plush job, heavily furnished with grand pianos, helpful celebrities and enthusiastic prodigies...
...Great Feeling (Warner) is another clownish musical harnessing Jack Carson and Doris Day to the formula used in My Dream Is Yours, which they recently dragged through the neighborhood circuits. Doris is again the little girl with a big voice, in search of a still bigger career. Carson is the man to help her. His help, as usual, is mostly hindrance...