Word: funning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back at the end of August, this writer and two friends converged on a little town between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, pockets stuffed with black-market, Dutch guilders, and hired ourselves a boat. The man who took our money grinned pleasantly and told us we would have much fun...
...have caused you to think otherwise." It continues with a description of America repaying its cultural debt to the rest of the world with "arms and economic plans that cripple your industries"; the foreword conands of translations of the original text have cluded that "like you, we love fun, our people, and our land...
Offstage, Piaf, now 33, is more hoyden than gamin, loves to poke fun in a husky voice at her manager and friends. And she doesn't worry about her appearance distracting; with her hair combed, and a smartly tailored suit, she is très chic. She is doggedly serious about learning English. She takes a lesson a day; instead of table hopping between her two shows at the Versailles, she studies her grammar book in her dressing room. The main reason: after her third visit to the U.S., she has decided "six months Paris, six months New York...
Most children hate being fitted with new shoes-unless they are taken to a store where they can look at their toes in an X-ray fitting machine. Then it's fun. But last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Charles R. Williams of the Harvard School of Public Health warned about the harm that this type of fun might cause, through overexposure to X rays...
...them up to stardom, two comics (Jules Munshin and Keenan Wynn) and two imperturbable renegades from the fine arts (Ethel Barrymore and Jose Iturbi). Among the players, only Thomas Gomez (whose portrait of a tenor warming up his tonsils spoofs both tenor and script) seems to be having any fun in the machine comedy...