Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen and doesn't intend to see her picture ("I'm not ready to cut my throat yet"). But, remembering it as work-in-progress, she believes that movies can be "just like the stage . . . as subtle, and about things that matter." The intelligence of the general screen audience, she feels sure, is "very much underrated." Just now, beginning a run in the play Embezzled Heaven (TIME, Nov. 13), she is not thinking much about pictures, but she hopes to work in them again-"If," she takes care to say, "it's just like it was before...
Looking and grinning like Mr. Punch, 65-year-old Sir William observed: "I intend to devote the rest of my life to politics and to spreading liberalism wherever...
...friend," Corporal Louis Riley, peacetime Manhattan real-estate dealer, now stationed at nearby Fort Benning. The once divorced, once widowed cinemactress gave a party for the Corporal, invited his entire company, later said: "I am a woman of 36 and I have sense enough to announce it if I intend to get married...
...wish you to know," he went on, "that I have received orders from my Führer to fight to the last man and that is what I intend to do. The sole reason for suggesting this truce is to find a way of evacuating the civilian population...
What did Senator Truman intend that the U.S. should do? For one thing he would start at the beginning with an exchange of students between the two service academies. For another thing, a General Staff (not Joint Chiefs of Staff) would sit at the right hand of a Secretary of War who would run both the services. Senator Truman recalled that this was the original U.S. idea: "A single War Department was created by Act of Congress on Aug. 7, 1789. Not until April 30, 1798 did the advocates of an independent Navy succeed in their effort," start a rivalry...