Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gilbert Co., famed for its metal Erector sets, has invented reasonable facsimiles in wood and porcelain. Lionel Corp. has substituted fiberboard model railroad kits, with "realistic roadside accessories," for their streamlined electric trains. Other ersatz build-it-your-self sets ran the gamut from Flying Fortresses and anti-tank guns to farms complete with milking pails, and three-ring circuses complete with rolling lion cages. There were cardboard guns that rat-a-tat-tatted just as if they were made of metal, Para-Commando dolls (with ammunition and food kits), miniature WAVES, WAACs and Marines, wooden roller skates...
Only Crimson casualty, whimsically enough, is Coach Earl Brown. The Varsity mentor, who always mixes it up with his boys in pre-practice games of "21" and the like, sprained his ankle on Monday and was using crutches yesterday at practice. Today should see him running the emotional gamut on his own two feet, thought...
...Human Problems of Administration," as its title indicates, deals with the problems of handling human beings which are important in administration. It involves a study of group psychology and problems which arise in handling groups of men. Here the men will delve into the whole gamut of questions which arise when people work together--grievances and their settlement, handling of irascible foremen, quarrels among workers...
...patriarch George Brent. There is a secret marriage and a hidden child, and a few heart-rending scenes of mother love add an unconvincing emotional element before the anticipated end. All this is only too familiar to the steady moviegoer, who has probably seen Stanwyck run this stereotyped emotional gamut before. And in her case practice doesn't seem to make perfect...
...post-war years Laval was variously a Socialist, Communist (for a few days), and numerous shades of rightist. Running this gamut he became a past master of French political intrigue, served as Foreign Minister and in other posts with several Cabinets. He also began to make big money as a corporation lawyer and super-fixer. Said he: "I don't like to work amongst files and documents. Give me the human element...