Word: elasticize
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"Based" is such an elastic word, it is hard to distinguish fact from fiction. Everybody (especially Vladimir Sokoloff) acts like a character in a half-believable movie melodrama. But some of the things they do are so incredible that they are obviously current history.
¶ In Hollywood, Actress Martha Vickers (see cut) displayed knee-length stockings to be worn with the New Look. Except for being held up with elastic instead of by a roll, they were much like the "roll-your-own" stockings U.S. women wore back in the roaring, short-skirted '...
Princely Prose. The first article, which LIFE publishes this week, has a few remembered glimpses of the late Victorian era into which David was born, and many a richly detailed picture of the Edwardian era in which he was reared. He was christened Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David...
As World War II started, Cripps sat alone, an independent, in the House of Commons. Tory Churchill, who knew ability when he saw it, put him to work. As British Ambassador to Moscow, Cripps concluded the long-sought Anglo-Russian Pact. Cripps was so happy on this occasion that he...
British radio, like a British weekend, is casual, slow-paced and elastic. If the script calls for a minute of silence or three hours of steady bagpiping, the BBC's Third Program* (TIME, Nov. 4) is only too happy to oblige. British broadcasters and British listeners have no horror...