Word: jigsaw
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International Impression. The overall impression of the United Nations show is of a hasty hodgepodge: oriental rugs, Central American tombstones, early Sumerian sculpture, a strictly Tsarist Russian picture of the jigsaw-puzzle school-and a few really fine things like the stone Hand of a Buddha from China's northern Ch'i dynasty, Honoré Daumier's Crispin and Scapin and Rembrandt's Man with Turban...
...must not be stampeded by such dislocations into elaborate controls or special dispensations. Our economy is a jigsaw pattern of interlocking buyers and sellers, producers and consumers. The pieces of the jigsaw will move into place best if we give people scope and leeway...
...Monty's" flank protection was almost set up. Apparently the last bit of everything Monty demanded was in place, the last bit of the strategic jigsaw ready to fall into place. Monty could sound the call. In an order of the day he steamed up his Twenty-first Army Group: "We stand ready for the last round. . . . We will go for the knockout blow...
...this class has been the liveliest for some time. Leo Karumpelas, dropping his accordion, has decided about the prospects with C.M. Bob Weekes and Dave Schieder, after the visit to the estate last weekend, have ideas about the profits to be made in jigsaw puzzles...
...Merry Monahans (Universal), a jigsaw of nostalgic cliche, sometimes mildly pleasing, never downright unpleasant, involves vaudevillians Jack Oakie, Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan in one more exhumation of variety's vanished glories. Chief problem in this one: keeping Paterfamilias Oakie, a sterling performer when sober, away from the bottle. Jack Oakie continues as amiably reliable as a merry-go-round. Miss Ryan is less rambunctious and more human than before. Donald O'Connor, besides being a solid vaudevillian, remains the most likable juvenile in pictures...