Word: eves
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which generally feature either beauteous Maria Montez jouncing down a stairway or beauteous Yvonne de Carlo dancing. This time it is Miss de Carlo's turn. A refined girl, she nevertheless heads the floor show in a tidy sort of Moroccan dive in order to support her mother (Eve Arden), a lady wastrel. She is rescued from these questionable surroundings by a sailor named...
...Gloom Week in Britain. The Labor Government got around to telling the people some of the hard facts of their economic life. On the eve of Parliament's reassembly it issued a White Paper, chocked with black news. Britain's position was "extremely serious." The U.S. and Canadian loans "only give us a short breathing space." The country was "still running into debt Abroad." In 1946 its imports exceeded exports by $1,312,000,000. Its manpower shortage was grave: 500,000 to 700,000 more workers were needed in export industries if the trade balance...
Married. Van Johnson, 31, chubby, pink-haired cinema Dream Boy of U.S. bobby-soxers, and Eve Abbott Wynn, 30, onetime stage actress; he for the first time, she for the second; four hours after she divorced Comedian Keenan Wynn, Johnson's best friend; in Juarez, Mexico...
...flames had flared first last year in Leon, where trigger-happy soldiers killed 27 citizens demonstrating against a municipal government that had been "imposed" by bosses. Nationwide indignation drove the governor and mayor from office. Fire blazed again on New Year's Eve when police killed ten demonstrators at Tapachula. on the Guatemalan frontier. There the governor took hasty leave of absence...
Sinclair Lewis, whose last try at movie writing was an anti-fascist horse opera (junked as "bad box office"), was back for another try-this time a satire on Adam & Eve. Two days after he hit Hollywood, Babbitt's aging creator: 1) went to a big party at Gossipist Hedda Hopper's, 2) talked like a native. "The movies are no more commercial," declared Lewis, "than any other form of art. . . . There's no reason to suppose that a poor man starving in a garret writes better than a rich man living in a mansion. . . . Human beings...