Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid an atmosphere of multi-colored hatching suits in an ideal California setup, Esther Williams and Red Skelton run through the paces of another trivial, escapist musical. The big surprise is that "bathing beauty" Esther can actually swim...
George Bernard Shaw celebrated his 88th birthday with advice on How to Care for Babies. In the London Times he compared the late Kaiserin Augusta's model Berlin nursery with shanty homes in Ireland's Connemara: "Under the ideal Berlin conditions the infants died like flies while in Connemara there was no [infant] mortality rate because children never died there. . . . The difference was due to the fact that in Berlin the nurses tidied up the children's beds and fed and took their temperatures and weighed and measured them very efficiently . . . whereas in Connemara the mother hugged...
Says Lippmann: "Wilson's name is now so completely identified with the ideal of a universal society that the principles he laid down for attaining a universal society are generally believed to be axiomatic and immutable." Author Lippmann believes that "a universal society cannot be realized by following the Wilsonian principles...
...questionnaire also showed that some 20 men had been present for over a dozen performances. One man was even an usher at the strip palace for six months, and a question mentioning the ideal location of the theatre (half-way between the Charlestown Navy Yard and Harvard Square) was entered on a Geography 1 exam...
This country is almost ideal for tank warfare. On that plain, a battle of armor may be shaping up on a scale great enough to determine the course of the war in the west; perhaps it will be the El Alamein of western Europe...