Word: heavensent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yet life isn't as grim as this sounds. We did meet our fellow officers at Soldiers Field, to practice for the Navy Day review--then, remember, the heavens wept, and we didn't march Navy Day after all--instead we went to class two extra hours in the afternoon...
In his middle years, Helleu maintained a small yacht, aboard which he used to receive the neurasthenic Marcel Proust, transported at night from Paris to the sea in a favorite taxicab. Helleu is said to have been, in part, the inspiration for the painter Elstir in Proust's great...
"I was terribly frightened. I heard the planes but could not see them. Then sud denly the sky became intensely bright. There were torrents of fire from the sky. It seemed as though vessels of flowing fire had been overturned in the heavens. Streams of fire reached the earth and...
Cabin In The Sky (M.G.M.) is an all-star Negro musical with handsome, luscious-voiced Lena Home (TIME, Jan. 4), Ethel Waters, "Rochester," Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Hall Johnson's singers. Like many star-filled pictures, this one never really shows off its crowded heavens. The Negroes are...
Prologues and Premeers. From the start in Hollywood, Grauman concocted enormously successful madcapitalist "innovations." One of these was having movie stars make personal appearances. Another was the "prologue," the ancestor of today's stage show. The most famous and flamboyant was the "premeer"-the klieg-lighted, red-carpeted opening...