Word: finests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find the words of the contemporary ditty to be the case at all. The young woman (Michelene Presle), married to a soldier she does not love, becomes deeply and passionately involved with an adolescent (Gerard Phillipe), and around their clandestine romance is spun the action of the finest French film this reviewer has seen...
...Shah repaid President Truman's hospitality with a lavish dinner for 800 in the main' ballroom of the Shoreham-Hotel; the Iranian Embassy was too small to hold the dinner there. Said he: "The President is one of the finest men I ever...
...East brought many of the steelmaking secrets of Damascus into the Rhineland, and in the 6th Century Theodoric the Ostrogoth pronounced Solingen's swords worthy of Vulcan's own forge. Charlemagne armed his warriors at Solingen's smithies. During the Crusades they produced the finest blades in Christendom. In the 16th Century the smiths of Solingen engraved the proud label, "Solingen made me," on their blades, as a guarantee of unmatched keenness...
...Manhattan's Eighth Avenue the waiter at Andy Murphy's Bar hauled out his finest Scotches and liqueurs; a nearby news vendor noticed a sudden flurry in the demand for such publications as Rider & Driver and Town & Country. From 48th to 52nd Streets, prizefight and hockey fans were in temporary retreat before the advancing wave of high society which was bravely turned out in sables and silk hats, diamonds and décolletages. The 61st annual National Horse Show was on in Madison Square Garden...
However, two brave individuals, Richard W. Krakeur and Robert L. Joseph, have produced one of Stringberg's finest plays, "The Father," and have given it such an intelligent production that it seems as if the jinx may at last be broken. Using Mr. Joseph's English version of the play, and with a cast headed by Raymond Massey and Mady Christians, the Messrs. Krakeur and Joseph have provided the theater with one of its most interesting and exciting entertainments in a long while...