Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toronto voters were baffled by the issues in this week's general election, they had only their newspapers to blame. Not since the days of fist-swinging personal journalism had they known anything like the political news served up during the campaign by the city's evening papers, the Liberal Star (circ. 362,193) and the Tory Telegram (circ...
...invitation from the Ogdensburg, N.Y. Chamber of Commerce. "In fact, it would be quite impossible for her to do so" (the letter did not explain why). But anyhow, the princess sent her thanks to Ogdensburg, and wanted the Chamber of Commerce to know "how very much she would like to accept...
...Appearance. Her role: a man-crazy movie actress on tour. Now the wife of a rancher (ex-Movie Cowboy Rex Bell) and mother of two children, Clara was doing it strictly "for fun." A Hollywood comeback later on? Not a chance, said she: "I had my babies and I like the life in Nevada . . ." After the show, she would hurry right back to the kids (now 14 and 11) and more retirement...
...Like watching the March hare playing tricks on an indulgent mad hatter," said the Manchester Guardian of Harpo & Chico Marx, now appearing on the London stage (Groucho was at home). The London Times burbled: "What makes these great clowns is this combination of fun and fantasy with something else, a mixture of worldly wisdom and naïveté, of experience but also of an innocence never altogether lost, of dignity and absurdity together, so that for a moment we love and we applaud mankind...
Despite the critics' praises, few gallery-goers were likely to see beyond the main quality of Rose's Crucifixion: its ghastliness. Rose had clothed the figure of Christ in writhing ribbons of green flesh outlined with black and lavender, dripping streamer-like gouts of purplish blood. The painting swarmed dizzyingly with abstruse symbols, many of them phallic. Christ's brow, overhanging the foreground, was an electric lamp...