Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kitchen Commando. In Bloomfield township, Mich., a seemingly endless, six-inch-wide column of black ants streamed into the kitchen of Gunnar Turnquist, who fought them in vain with broom and spray gun, finally won out after blazing away for an hour and a half with a blowtorch...
...Moral of It All." The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. G. F. Fisher, was not afraid of "endless destruction." "In time this discovery will immensely increase the ease of human life. . . . Great comfort is a temptation more dangerous than great danger. To use the increased leisure and to use it fruitfully will call for an increase in man's own spiritual resources. Men must become better men. That is the moral...
...American public, which foamed at the sprightly invective and caricature in Mrs. Trollope's first book, Domestic Man ners of the Americans. The book was a financial success, but not sufficiently so to relieve the author as she shunted her family to & fro over Europe in an endless flight from moneylenders and hotel bills...
...part "the G.I. dies so miserably!" What makes G.I. Joe an unusual picture is its unsparing reconstruction of a soldier's wretched little realities. Beginning with Company C's first fearful, fascinated look at death in North Africa, the G.I.'s lives are played out in endless rain,' mud, hunger, boredom, weariness and fear. The film's soldiers are grimy and unshaven; they do not march but stumble on in utter weariness; they talk in low, tired tones...
...frenzied production lines of Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood and the radio studios were looking for somebody just like him. George Gershwin became a steady customer; so did his buddy, Oscar Levant. Soon many able musicians (Jesse Crawford, Benny Goodman, Vernon Duke) were juggling rhythms and harmonies into endless combinations. Long-haired music schools eschewed Schillinger and all his works: their students had plenty of time to court the muse...