Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college by the Dean's Office. Sinister characters wander across the screen throwing knives and shooting each other in bewildering confusion. Of course, by the end of the picture, the whole plot is very simple,--to William Powell. But script-writers, playing their merry game of hide-and-seek-the-murderer with the audience, seem to have overstepped the bounds of sportsmanship and produce plots to confound even the mightiest mental power-house...
...than a year ago, keeping Associated in a pyramid had become a prodigious balancing act. The Hopson "service" companies had siphoned off too much of the system's fat in better times. The Hopson lawyers, who had al ways kept one jump ahead of the Government in playing hide-&-seek among the hundreds of interlocking subsidiaries, got to the end of their legal inventions. When, in November, SEC ruled that registered holding companies and their subsidiaries could no longer draw dividends out of capital or unearned surplus without permission, must draw on earnings or go without, the writing...
...enormous portions of South America there is no question whether animals or humans have the upper hand; no white man has ever moved there, and the Indians themselves hide from the insects, and cross the streams in fear. The world there, in human terms, is scarcely yet begun. The reader who cares to gain a smattering of what does live there, and how, can get an excellent layman's start with Naturalist Cutright's book...
Germany has lost Italy and gained no new allies. Britain cemented friendship with Rumania and Turkey. The Scandinavian democracies, maintaining a poker-faced neutrality, did their best to hide their patent sympathies. A friendly U. S. repealed its arms embargo. Lord Halifax's diplomatic machine is in fine fettle...
...proof reader tried to save my hide by putting in..."(the name escapes me at the moment)"...but it was a boner and to all of you that called and wrote in, my humblest apologies. Incidentally, the name of the thing was "Honeysuckle Rose"--as arranged by Fletcher Henderson...