Word: hand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, there was not much cause for alarm. In the commodity markets, wholesale coffee prices had risen, 25% on news that Brazil's crop will be short because of damage. Many retailers had taken advantage of the scare to mark up their stocks on hand as much as 50%. Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture tried to calm things down a bit. There was enough coffee around, said the department, to prevent an acute'shortage. The National Coffee Association agreed. Snapped an N.C.A. official: "There's no question but that present excessive demand is entirely artificial...
...dinner party . . . Franklin turned to Madame Chiang and asked, 'What would you do in China with a labor leader like John Lewis?' She never said a word, but the beautiful, small hand came up very quietly and slid across her throat." ¶ At one of the Big Three meetings, "Franklin had been wondering aloud what would happen in their respective countries if anything happened to [the Big Three], and Stalin said: 'I have everything arranged in my country. I know exactly what will happen...
...verdict gushes too high. Firbank's light and dexterous hand may have "altered the pace of dialogue for the [contemporary] novel" and his work may represent a "startling technical achievement." But the proper place for his silver cobwebs is in, round, and underneath a closed circle of impalpable esthetes...
...role of the "Critic" and friend of the acting couple, Jerry Kilty does not give his usual assured performance and is often unconvincing as the worldly and aged roue. After a few more performances, however, he should have the part better in hand...
Both clubs combined to open the program with "Ecce Jam Noctis" by George W. Chadwick, arranged for brass and woodwinds by Walter Piston. The work was very interesting, but it was hampered by the poor playing of members of the Yale hand and singing which was not nearly so polished as that in the rest of the program...