Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better to Buy a Guitar." In Moscow, though the sun was out when Marshall's plane landed, things looked scarcely brighter. Andrei Vishinsky appeared, wear ing the steel grey Soviet diplomatic uniform with its star like a marshal's. The U.S. Secretary of State wore a plain overcoat and a neat grey Homburg. Reported one U.S. correspondent: "So in these strange times, a civilian dressed up like a general met a general dressed like a civilian...
They saw a fast-moving pageant of ritual dramas and folk plays, heard scratchy Ch'ing Dynasty blues and a half-dozen pieces by a "classical orchestra"-an ensemble that was ancient when Confucius was young. Though Broadway-farers made little sense out of the dancelike dramas, they liked the sword dance by Gardenia Chang, the gaudy plumage, rooster-strutting and extravagant simpers...
Russia's purges are traditionally grim affairs. The conspicuous difference between the current nationwide"houseclean-ing" and others is the sprightly (and skin-crawling) humor with which the tares of the malefactors have been exhibited in the Soviet press. Thus the toughest sentence is doubly justified, since the defendants have been proved not only criminal but ridiculous...
...Novelist Rawlings as a scrawny, narrow-shouldered runt), is acted with clean competence-a mite too clean -by handsome Gregory Peck, 6ft. 3 in. Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face & figure are a glamorized caricature of the novel's bulky Ma Baxter...
...began to splutter in Piccadilly, and John's hands went on sliding into pockets. He thieved all through the four years of the first world war. Dictators rose to power and maps were altered overnight: but John, white-haired and vener able, was still standing with his itch ing fingers among the noise and bustle of the Strand...