Word: gorgeousity
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Patton's colleagues smiled at such stories, believed some of them. But in the early months of the Tunisian fighting, in the later months when he was shaping the Seventh Army, a more balanced impression of General Patton had got about. "Gorgeous George," "Old Blood & Guts," who had once cultivated the spectacular impression, was also a patient and careful and studious man, a field officer with a good staff mind...
...gorgeous day ... sun shining. clouds scudding, girls in sweaters strolling invitingly by. But the two heroes of this late of devotion to duty gave not a thought to such plebian harbingers of Spring, for they were enterug the gates of the Navy Yard, intent on adding to their growing warehouse of knowledge...
Antics. The town's best act is Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante, who, at the brightly Brazilian Copacabana with its gorgeous showgirls, is making his first real nose-to-nose appearance in twelve years. Schnozzle ("I know I'm not good-lookin', but wot's my opinion against tousands of odders?") has aged but fortunately not mellowed, is again in the vein of the late, great Clayton, Jackson & Durante act, able to concentrate on his own mad, multileveled comedy which Hollywood usually heavily diluted with other men's ideas. He brings on his old partner, Eddie Jackson...
...Behrman; produced by The Playwrights' Company & The Theater Guild) is the season's gayest bore. Everything conceivable has been done to make it seem that Playwright Behrman has really written a play. The sets are charming. The incidental music is lively. The costumes are gorgeous. Above all, Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne-he at his most swashbuckling, she at her most mischievous-romp and cavort for all they are worth...
...spite of all her speeches about how she learned to sing by listening to the Negroes back home, da-own Sa-outh, Dinah's singing has very little of the true Negro spirit. For one of the first issues of the now-defunet Music and Rhythm, Dinah wrote a gorgeous little article about the Mississippi, the steamboats a chuggin', and the blues go rollin' on forever. Merely the fact that she has never once mentioned listening to Beside Smith should...