Word: gaspeing
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...fancy look of some hotels that the Army has taken over for its redistribution centers makes G.I. guests gasp. After a fortnight of top-priced splendor ($30 a day for two) at Asheville's Grove Park Inn (cost for soldiers, nothing; for soldiers wives, $1.50 a day) Corporal and Mrs. Harry Paczynski of Erie, Pa. were still pinching themselves. Said Mrs. Paczynski, after wandering through the huge, hushed lounge of the great grey stone pile: "Sometimes I wonder if I'm dreaming...
Story: 22 hungry actors are interned in a Manhattan hotel by a large unpaid bill. A backer appears with a check (rubber) and a protégée (Anne Jeffreys) who falls for The Voice. Even Sinatraddicts may gasp at the shots in which reluctant Mr. Sinatra and enthusiastic Miss Jeffreys practically reenact the Fall of Man in a telephone booth...
Startled Sweden. Hemmed, trade-conscious Sweden received its warning with a surprised gasp. Giant, Swedish-owned SKF (Svenska Kullager-fabriken) has had its Schweinfurt and Paris factories blitzed by American bombers; but others, in Sweden, kept on turning out ball bearings for the Nazi war machines. Swedes had thought that their iron-ore and ball-bearing trade with Germany had U.S.-British blessing; both Allies approved the revised Swedish-German trade pact last January.* If deprived of U.S. gasoline Swedes would suffer, but not so much as if they gave up German coal. Likely Swedish answer: a pained, determined...
...many Marines followed so many charges that by the third day even the Japs knew that they were licked. The last gasp was a desperate "Banzai" attack; the Japs charged, screaming "Marine, you die!" and "Japanese drink Marine's blood!" The Marines' line wavered, then held. By next day Tarawa...
...Song of Bernadette (20th Century-Fox) will doubtless be one of the box-office bingos of the new year. It may not be, as its producers gasp, "a motion picture so powerful . . . so majestic . . . so deep in its understanding . . . that for one immortal moment you touch the eternal truth . . . the final fulfillment... of everything you are . . . or ever hope to be." Nevertheless, it is a remarkably good moving picture-an improvement on Franz Werfel's reverent novel about the French peasant girl who saw the Blessed Virgin and, with her help, discovered a miraculously healing spring at Lourdes...