Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young love. Cinemactor Charles Coburn plays Walter Huston's old part as a period dictator-Peter Stuyvesant. Nelson Eddy is the singing editor whom Stuyvesant jails for his opinions and to get his girl. The girl: Constance Dowling who, besides singing likably enough, has the high surface gloss and hardness of a Dutch tile. Carmen Amaya, who has nothing to do with the plot, dances powerfully, continues to convey passion by making faces as if her partner had just trod on her corns. Kurt Weill's score has moments notably the gay-sad September Song, that suggest...
...Army and Navy could no longer gloss over or glorify defeats at Attu, Kiska, the Solomons, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Truk. Suddenly they had emerged as stages in a U.S. strategical plan for which Japan had as yet found no defensive answer. Even the man-in-the-street now knew: the crisis in the Pacific approached...
...Gandhi had ended his fast was received with prayers of thanksgiving by millions of his followers and sympathizers. Illiterate, mystical, depressed, the Indian masses rejoiced that Gandhi's life, which is their symbol of hope and liberation, had been spared. But Indian political leaders did not attempt to gloss over the adverse effects of the fast. They were frankly worried...
...comprehensive attempt ever made to gather in one volume the treasures ... of art which are housed in the museums of North America." Authors are Regina Shoolman, secretary of the American Institute for Iranian Art and Archeology, and Charles E. Slatkin of Brooklyn. In 295 pages of critical text they gloss the book's pictures with 17 brief, illuminating guides to periods and schools of the world...
...allowing luxuries to find their own price in the market. Against such a policy the OPA argues that it is extremely difficult to distinguish between necessities and luxuries, and secondly that if luxuries rise in price, manufacturers will switch into making them rather than necessities. But OPA tends to gloss over the fact that higher prices also reduce the demand for goods...