Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role best calculated to squeeze the sobs is that of the slavey; and talented Dorothy McGuire runs the whole gamut. If she looks even lovelier, at moments, as the slavey's bluntfaced self-rather like Maude Adams, in fact-than as Robert Young's extensive improvement on the original, that is only because a gentle soul shines brighter than anything the Max Factory can contrive. Robert Young, as the disfigured veteran, combines his genuine manliness and sympathy with stylized sentimentality in perfect proportions; and Makeup Artist Maurice Stedman helps him give his uglier moments a pathos at once...
...mood control keyboard" which will influence the frame of mind of everyone in the kitchen. "Has dangerous possibilities: keyboard can run gamut of emotions up to complete hypnosis...
Running the gamut of styles, the show leaned to the progressive, contained few echoes of war, political plumping, or the soap-box exhortations fashionable a decade ago. There were elaborate, anything-but-immaculate conceptions which for untutored eyes might just as well have hung upside down. There were shaky, stuttering labors-in-oil by artists known chiefly to their immediate families, friends and critic-sponsors. There were also sober, estimable paintings by artists like Alexander Brook, John Carroll, Walt Kuhn, Raphael Soyer. Sample critics and choices...
...Gamut. In Montana, Mary Flynn began her teaching career in a town named Paradise, ended it in one called Hell Gate...
...cars and shipped to Germany. Half-starved and battered with gun butts, Hélion and nine comrades were sent to a big baronial estate in Pomerania. Baroness von Z. looked with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates lived on the lowest level of Nazi serfdom. They ate potato soup, potato-and-rye bread, cold potato dessert; their stomachs swelled with potato gas. By day they frantically dug potatoes side by side...