Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regard to Mrs. C. W. Jackson's letter [saying] that "the Democrats are looking backward on the events of the past, the Republicans are looking forward on the events of the future" [TIME...
...monument. I have done many things in my life and many of them I dislike after a few months, but this one I keep coming back to see." And as war memorials go, De Strobl's monument was indeed complex, harmonious, and impressive. Even so, Hungarians who look forward to a "second liberation" can hardly wait to topple it into the Danube...
...shade on the years to let the sunshine of the Bambino's rollicking history pour through the room of his tree-shrouded Rye home as he abstractedly nodded: 'Babe Ruth was just a human citizen-a human American citizen.'" Westbrook Pegler, putting his worst (kickless) foot forward, told how Ruth, "a burly oaf [who] could suck half a pound of tobacco and spit through his ears," had autographed a baseball for him, a gift that helped him win his bride 26 years...
...deficits had been made up by Director Lucia Chase (heiress of a carpet fortune), who also danced leading roles in the company. Her estimated loss so far: $2,000,000. Ballet Theatre would start up again perhaps next year, said Miss Chase, but only if someone else came forward with a little money...
...that does not jell. This doesn't. William Powell has had long experience in playing a flustered man of distinction, but this time he plays it as if it were one experience too many. Miss Blyth is about as ichthyoid as you can get and still interest more forward-looking vertebrates. During the long buildup to her first appearance there seems to be some hope for the movie; but once they have a mermaid on their hands, the people who made the picture haven't even a Peabody's idea what to do with her. Once, under...