Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clement Attlee, accompanied by Nye Bevan, Labor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips, Labor Chairman Wilfred Burke, onetime Minister of National Insurance Edith Summerskill and Trade Union Leaders Harry Earnshaw, Sam Watson and Harry Franklin. Moscow's richest and reddest carpets were rolled out. A flecon of Russia's finest perfume, "The Spirit of the Red Army," was waiting in her hotel room to greet Dr. Summerskill, the only woman in the party. Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov even went so far as to drive over to the British embassy and drink a toast to Queen Elizabeth...
According to the famous photographer of women, Philippe Halsman, "she has the finest figure of any actress I have known." In Paris a new phrase (les lollos) is being used in brassiere advertisements. In Lon don Sir Jacob Epstein, the famed sculptor, has done a bust of Gina, and in Manhattan, Gossipist Walter Winchell has been gushing about the new "Lollopalooza...
...Italian actresses had any notion of acting when they went to work; indeed, the finest actress in Italy, 46-year-old Anna (Open City) Magnani, has been so thoroughly overlooked in the girly-burly that she has not made a picture in two years. Six of the new top ten were picked by their directors out of beauty contests. In their films, as a rule, they do not even have to speak; the Italian system of dubbing sound track into a film after the camerawork is done makes it possible, as one director explains, "to put the acting in later...
This year and next, when the returns from the Italians' big gamble with multimillion-dollar productions come rolling in, will tell the tale. But no matter what the climax, it is sure, in a vital respect, to be an anticlimax. The finest hour of the Italian cinema was rung in with Open City (1946) and tolled out with Umberto D (1952), and every man of talent in the Italian movie industry knows it. Few are willing to give up the prospect of prosperity, but most are sad and just a little ashamed to see their pictures become more...
...Daily Mail: FASTEST YET-AND BRITISH. But some, remembering how few of Britain's shiny prototypes ever see squadron service, were less enthusiastic. Said the Manchester Guardian: "The [Hawker] Hunter and the [Supermarine] Swift, according to Government statements two years ago, were going to be 'the finest day fighters in the world.' . . . [But] by midsummer of 1954, only a few Hunters had reached squadrons, and the Swifts were all grounded, because of technical troubles. By the time [the P. i] comes into general service, if it ever does, it too may be behind the best . . . The R.A.F...