Word: fabrication
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...develop a Milne play like Mr. Hopkins. His deft hand is always there to give a push where the fragile dramatic fabric can stand it, to give gentle support where the stuff is sheer. Actor Calhern, having owed himself a good performance since his appearance in The Tyrant, makes a splendid baffled member of Parliament. If you can stand whimsy in stiff doses, Give Me Yesterday is recommended...
...award not been announced, the profession could have guessed that they were: "For having the courage to open the pages of his magazine to controversial subjects of vital importance to advertising and presenting both sides fairly; for attacking the use of paid testimonials which were endangering the whole fabric of advertising; and for founding Advertising Arts, thereby presenting a medium for the expression of art in business...
Such an activity, knitting its fabric of understanding more firmly each year, will build a monument to outlast pageants, marble statues and bronze plaques. The monument will be erected in the minds and hearts of the two peoples. --The Christian Science Monitor...
...misunderstood, if they did not mistrust, an eroticism so exquisite and distinguished. Better Renoir and Matisse, they thought, and the more primary Freudian reactions of such masters than a painter so intent on capturing and passing on to us the heat, the fever, almost the libido, of a colored fabric, a seated girl or a garden flower...
...nearly every layman knows, hydrogen is 8% more buoyant than helium, but is in disfavor for use in dirigibles because: 1) it is explosive and 2) it seeps through the fabric about 50% faster than helium. Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics made known that a mixture of 90% helium and 10% hydrogen may be developed for the Navy's new superdirigibles ZRS-4 and ZRS-5. Such a mixture, suggested by German scientists, would enable a ship of that size (6,500,000 cu. ft. inflation) to carry 25 additional persons.† More important...