Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months the French newspapers have been translating the U.S. phrase "cold war" as la guerre froide. To an imaginative and linguistically fertile people, this lacked a certain savor. Last week a new and entirely French label for the "cold war" was launched by one-eyed President of the Republic Vincent Auriol himself...
...Hollywood Women's Press Club voted Gary Cooper and Jennifer Jones the Most Uncooperative Actor & Actress of 1947. Gregory ("always available") Peck and Joan ("affable") Fontaine were voted Most Cooperative (four years ago, Miss Fontaine was wearing Miss Jones's label...
Your review of the cinema, The Lost Moment [TIME, Dec 8], based on the adumbrated novel by Henry James, the scribbler (to use the vulgar expression), is sufficient, I think, to suggest the ponderous prose, the-some personages might almost label-circum-locuted prose of Henry, the dear fusspot, James, but, may one reflect, and I do appreciate your unwonted forbearance, that the pages of TIME are not precisely the place-one may relievedly observe-where one expects to encounter . . . the ambiguous, attenuated, ' grayed verbiage, the niceties of the vaporous review mentioned somewhere above...
Continuing his fight against the Red label recently fastened on the Screen Writers' Guild by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Emmet Lavery, president of the Guild, will address the Liberal Union and other local Students for Democratic Action chapters Thursday at 7:15 o'clock in Emerson...
Last spring a TIME correspondent asked a Greek Communist leader how he could label the Greek Government "monarcho-fascist" when it permitted a Communist opposition press to operate in the heart of Athens. "They permit it," he said, "so foreigners can ask questions like that...