Word: flawlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ACCOUNT RENDERED-Patricia Went-worth-Lippincott ($2). Lucas Dale, of shady past and noisy-rich present, gets properly murdered when he tries to marry Susan Lenox. She wanted Bill Carrick. Twenty-eighth Wentworth mystery, this one is clever, English, flawless...
...Only hard work and a good, long record (he joined the Foreign Service in 1919, has served at Warsaw, Berne, Tokyo, Constantinople, Sydney) prevent Jay Pierrepont Moffat from being a lady novelist's version of the ideal diplomat: he goes out socially a great deal, plays flawless bridge, is esteemed as a dinner companion, is perfectly groomed, properly reserved. But because he traveled with Sumner Welles on his European trip last winter, has the British Empire as part of his regular beat and is one of the top policy-making State Department officials close to the President, the meaning...
...strides woodenly about the screen with an officer's hat and a swagger stick, Miss Vivien Leigh almost succeeds in making the story a credible one. As the ill-fated little ballet dancer who could do entrechat six (Nijinski could do ten), she dominates each scene with an almost flawless performance. Every half smile, every sidelong glance, every toss of her head, every movement of her hands makes the supporting cast sink further and further into a vague, formless background. But as for you, Mr. Goldwyn, by decking out Bob T. in that new trick mustache, you've shattered...
...generation ago glass was cut to make it sparkle, concealing greyness and flaws in the crystal. Today, such firms as Orrefors in Sweden and Steuben in the U. S. produce glass so flawless that it can be cut to contrast a silhouetted design against clear, elusive crystal. By an optical illusion, the cuts appear as bas-relief. Steuben's skilled craftsmen took the commissioned artists' sketches, blew and engraved every piece by hand. Prices ranged from $400 for Jean Hugo's classical urn with centaur and unicorn to $1,000 for Henri Matisse's Oriental piper...