Word: inks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doris Duke ("Richest Girl in the World") Cromwell, of late an ink-dabbler, explained why in Rome: "I . . . feel definitely drawn to journalism as a means of self-expression." Hopeful of getting into professional ranks, she said: "At one point I thought I'd use a nom de plume but I reconsidered, because life is complicated enough...
...ink had hardly dried on the declaration of surrender by Germany when the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences, which had already planned a jubilee to celebrate the 220th anniversary of its founding by Peter the Great, decided to turn the observance into the first international gathering of scientists on the Allied side since the London conference...
...card-playing Papa Gershwin, Morris Carnovsky blends humility, humor and awesome respect for his gifted son. ("How nice you write it out, Georgie, such black ink," he says, examining in uncomprehending wonder George's first musical manuscript.) Herbert Rudley and Albert Basserman underplay with moving simplicity the difficult roles of a retiring, satellite brother and a music teacher distrustful of Mammon's claims on his favorite pupil. Oscar Levant, as himself, needs no acting skill to project his practiced cockiness, but respect for his late friend in real life has given his comic relief performance an unexpected depth...
...jeep named "Jeanie" he covered the fronts, commuting between Cassino and the Anzio beachhead, making his left-handed sketches with India ink, which he got from the engineers, and three carefully guarded worn-out brushes...
...have not always agreed with the Taoiseach's policy. Before the ink was dry on the treaty which established the Irish Free State, I said that if England went to war she would have to reoccupy Ireland militarily, and fortify her ports. When this forecast came to the proof, the Taoiseach nailed his colors to the top gallant, declaring that with his little army of 50,000 Irishmen he would fight any & every invader. . . . And he got away with it triumphantly, saved, as Mr. Churchill has just pointed out, by the abhorred partition, which gave the Allies a foothold...