Word: intentedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intent of the author of the Sun's "facts to discredit the Commission, he chose an admirable time, considering that Congress now has the above mentioned bills before it. That the plan backfired is a fortuitous accident, and fortune is not always so kind. In fact the impression resulting from the original story may not be entirely erased, because retractions or modifications are never so eye-filling as eight column banner headlines...
...obscure the dramatic facts of Joan's career. Another is Maxwell Anderson's amazing gift of producing a flow of facile, taut dialogue. Finally, the cast is enthusiastic and, in the main, knows its craft. Madge Evans, despite a vigorous between-acts clawing from the Bergman acolytes, is fluent, intent on what she's doing, and very good to look at: and Richard Crouch is quick, practical, and harried as a stage manager...
...Punch, the cartoons were merely illustrations of elaborate written jokes. Today's Punch-like its U.S. contemporary, the New Yorker-strives for the drawing that is comic in itself, trims its captions to a single punch line. Punch frequently gets deep into politics and economics, with no intent to be funny. It also carries serious reviews of the movies, theater and books-but with a difference. Says Editor Knox: "The New Yorker is so scornful of everything. Nothing is quite good enough in their eyes. We try not to be too bitter or unkind...
...many predecessors; its world, as usual, is a world all its own. Blandings Castle is the scene; present are Lord Emsworth, who resembles a heap of old clothes in the moonlight, his prize pig, his battle-ax of a sister and various featherbrained members of a younger generation intent on strategies of love. Full Moon lacks the fresh epithets and fruity exuberance of Wodehouse's most inventive stories, but its nitwitticisms will satisfy the addicted...
...intent of the GI Bill was to finance the education of veterans, the bill no longer meets its purpose," the Graduate Council letter stated. It pointed to the recent Student Council Poll that demonstrated the inability of veterans' allowances to meet the cost of living in Cambridge...