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Cochran comes closest of all the new young villains to filling George Raft's hairpiece; and Actress Lupino, as is to be expected from a member of one of the oldest families in the British theater, flounces through her part with the sad little flourish of a hat-check girl in a customer's mink. And Ida can flounce with a verve that would have delighted Grandpa Lupino, known as "Old George," who held the 19th century record for successive toe spins...
...report meant that the Administration had met a recession and licked it not by the kind of pump-priming and governmental interference dear to the hearts of New Dealers, but by trimming Government expenditures and by giving private industry the kind of climate and incentive that allow enterprise to flourish...
...gallery would soon have funds for not one but two rest rooms. To some Woodstock's gaiety seemed too close to complacency-none of the big names had produced works for the occasion that were important, or even particularly adventurous. Grumbled Abstract Sculptor Herman Cherry: "Cocktail parties . . . flourish like poison ivy in this vicinity." But most Woodstock artists find that oil and Martinis mix well enough, and that art need not be great to be worth while...
...from the bass into a fruity contralto. Warmed up now, he launched into the difficult final movement with confidence. The tuba lumbered along in its elephantine way and right into another cadenza. This time Catelinet's solo came off well, and tuba and player ended with a fine flourish...
...with such out-of-the-ordinary novels as Lady into Fox, The Sailor's Return, Pocahontas. He did not even listen when George Bernard Shaw, watching him play in a children's charade, dubbed him a "born actor." Botany was his choice, but it failed to flourish in air that was positively humid with literary precipitations. All that survives today of Botanist Garnett is a pinheaded fungus named Discinella Minutissima Ramsbottom et Garnett...