Word: levant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond Turkey are two things Germany wants: the oil of Iraq and the Suez Canal. One arm of the final giant pincers on Suez was already moving in from Libya last week (see p. 28). How soon the other arm would reach across the Levant depended upon whether the Turks would fight...
...Received from the Inaugural Gift Committee (design and binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, who used 6,650 pieces of inlaid leather) for his Hyde Park library a special edition (estimated value: $5,000) of 20 cobalt-blue volumes, bound in French Levant morocco, of the Grolier Society's Book of Knowledge...
...SMATTERING OF IGNORANCE-Oscar Levant-Doubleday, Doran...
...Palestrina) who has lost his touch; ergo, he hires two very substantial looking ghosts, baby-face Bing Crosby and anything-but-baby-face Mary Martin. The Crosby-Martin arrangement gets hot, finally takes the tune away from tycoon Basil Rathbone. Moral:--Youth Will Be Served. P.S. A gargoyle named Levant appeared periodically. Four women swooned. Two children were carried out in hysterics...
Rhythm on the River (Paramount) brings back the heterogeneous talents of Funnyman Oscar Levant to the big-time cinema after an eleven-year pause. Fresh from successful sallies into literature (A Smattering of Ignorance) and radio (In formation, Please), Levant revives his movie career as the surly, acidulous secretary of a charlatan song writer (Basil Rathbone). This gives him a chance to rattle off some facile trills on conveniently placed pianos, berate the musical ignorance of the surrounding characters, growl an occasional wry witticism through his cavernous, smoke-filled mouth...