Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombs from the R. A. F. and shells from the Royal Navy. For five days many units of the latter lay to offshore, grimly pouring broadside after broadside into the flaming town. In an extraordinarily daring exploit, one British "light vessel" (possibly a destroyer) penetrated Bardia's inner harbor, and in a hail of Italian machine-gun fire from shore, sank three Italian supply vessels. The Italians tried, with torpedo planes, to drive off the iron-clad fortresses which their shore batteries could not hit or harm, but the R. N. stood its water in a historic demonstration...
This week, on Saturday afternoon, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will loop heavenward its new $13,000 gold curtain, revealing an inner curtain painted like a picture book. On the book is a likeness of Soprano Lily Pons, in red-white-&-blue uniform and cocked hat, surrounded by Alps and military symbols...
...three, is a fox-faced, natty fellow with a thin mustache and a strange accent modeled after the English. Two years ago, Birdwell left his job as head of Selznick International's publicity department to set up shop for himself. Three pretty secretaries guard his locked inner office, where he works long & hard creating gags for Selznick (whose account he still handles) and a number of individual actors like Carole Lombard, who are willing to pay as much as $25,000 a year to keep their names conspicuous...
...under 12,000. The membership includes a small percentage of small growers in the State who were scared by desperate, frequently reckless labor tactics and were genuinely hurt by growing labor costs. But the important membership is a large percentage of the large growers. They are the hierarchy and inner circle, gentlemen landinternational FARMER BANCROFT His enemies comforted...
...were model-airplane buffs, began to experiment with model autos. They built a miniature automobile, not much larger than a milk bottle, to fit over one of their tiny, ¼-h.p. internal-combustion airplane engines, tied one end of a piece of wire to the car's inner weight centre, tied the other end to a pole, let the car run in a wide circle...