Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevailing diplomatic manners, Franco's Spain was still not considered nice enough to sit down to dinner with the neighbors. But there seemed to be nothing against giving her enough money to enjoy a meal in her own dining hall. Last week, Manhattan's Chase National Bank, without objection from the U.S. State Department, gave Spain its first hearty handout from the U.S. since war's end: a $25 million short-term loan, for the purchase of fertilizers and electrical equipment. The loan was a gilt-edged risk, backed by Spanish gold reserves deposited in London, which...
Nobody in The Bribe seems to be having much fun at it except Laughton, who appears to relish his juicy cut of ham. There is a brilliant display of fiesta fireworks and a convincingly real sequence of deep-sea fishing (Taylor v. a handsome spiked marlin). For those who enjoy Laughton, fireworks, or big-game fishing, The Bribe may be worth a look...
Manhattan's Gimbels last week cleaned up an old powder-room joke to drive home an advertising point. In an ad in the New York Times for such labor-saving gimmicks as toasters and electric juicers, it showed a housewife stretched out in an armchair enjoying a television show. Advised Gimbels: "When housework is inevitable, relax and enjoy...
...nice time at the party. Thank you for playing games. I enjoy the ice cream, Christmas present. I like the candy and the Jinger ale, had fun with the magic art game. Thank you for everything sincerely...
Politics, Lancaster found, is a Greek passion rather than an onerous civic burden, and politicians "enjoy a regard which . . . can today be claimed solely by the more popular American film stars." Occasionally, the passion leads to refinements probably not dreamed of in Marshall Plan philosophy. At an orchestra rehearsal, "the composer of the work in progress having informed the orchestra that the next 25 bars of his tone-poem represented the triumph of democracy over Fascism, all the strings got up and cheered and the brass and percussion walked out in a rage." The woodwinds (who in Greece "are almost...