Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sortie, when Sandy landed his P-40 on the airdrome near Rangoon, a Jap fighter with machine guns spitting came wavering toward him. Sandy jumped into a ditch and the Jap crashed. When U.S. pilots reached his plane they found that the Jap had been wounded, had evidently been intent on a last victory in his crazy dive...
Cary Grant on Hollywood: "Chivalry has no place on the streetcar marked Fame. . . . Your fellow passengers are intent on gouging out your eyes. ... If a woman gets in your way, correct Hollywood etiquette is to slug her before she slugs...
...even, much more." How much more, Miss du Maurier wisely neglects to say; but she does bring on, as Dona's lover, the one sort of man who could conceivably supply it: a Frenchman (They Understand Love). He is a philosophical pirate, as tired of the world, as intent on what the pair anachronistically calls "escape," as Dona herself...
Chairman of the board and founder of the orchestra is a blonde, fast-talking, 29-year-old female violinist. So intent has she been in keeping herself and the rest of the group anonymous that TIME'S Hollywood correspondent declared: "To divulge her name would be the worst possible breach of journalistic faith." The Symphony invites conductors, well and little known, to preside over its sessions. José Iturbi, Igor Stravinsky, Georg Szell, Arnold Schönberg were glad of the chance. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, highbrow-turned-movie-composer, showed up with only 16? in his pocket. Nine members...
...footsore, angry man with just enough dry humor left to make one crack. Accepting a gavel from Pittsburgh steelworkers, he remarked wryly that he had had to stop Milwaukee delegates from presenting him with a piece of Wisconsin cheese. Said Murray with his thick Scots burr: "Whilst the intent is good, it obviously would not be in good taste for the President . . . under these circumstances to either accept a ham or a piece of cheese...