Word: flit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Bretton Woods economic conference established the World Monetary Fund, the French could rate their currency to flit their own needs, and the result in a period of economic distress was shown in the frequent currency wars after World War I, making a mockery of stability...
...down this week. According to the London Daily Mail, Britain had become a "concentration camp." Right up until Tuesday, boat trains and planes for the Continent were booked to capacity. Clutching the precious ?35 that Britons were then permitted to spend abroad, the last "butterflies"* did their best to flit out from under the descending...
...attempt to reveal the frustration of an escaped convict unable to trap the killer who has framed him becomes lost in a maze of bewildering side issues and incredible coincidences. Taxi drivers, plastic surgeons, small time grifters, and Lauren Bacall flit through the story in a circus parade of confusion that subordinates the basic theme to the point of obscurity. There seems no attempt to produce a graceful transition from seene to seene. Each skit drops down out of thin air, rumbles along to its maximum dramatic intensity, and then slowly sinks over the horizon...
...Stop a Bus. In Havana, Maria Ramirez Artiles stood impatiently in the rain waiting for a bus, furiously watched two flit right by. The third bus stopped-after a window was smashed and a passenger beaned by indignant Maria's well-aimed rock...
...leaf affair that blossomed and burst here some weeks ago, it might be dangerous to mention that the Veterans Theater, delivering the "world premiere" of William Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon" tonight, was thinking of a scene in which scantily-clad souls, awaiting reincarnation, flit around a dimly-lighted stage. Latest reports have it, however, that flesh-colored tights will not be worn. From its name, it may seem that the Veterans Theater, a group newly organized by Jerome Kilty '49, has some affiliation with an old Army or Navy clique. On the contrary, the name...