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Word: limpidities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Off with the Dance | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Mossman, a balding, limpid-eyed arranger who can bat out an "adaptation" in a day, has done 400 of them. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he has turned out some Gershwinesque compositions of his own. His New York Concerto is to be played by the Boston "Pops" Orchestra this summer. He has also won a fellowship to study composition and conducting at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Full Moon & Empty Arms | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...penumbra beyond the visual range of Hollywood scouts. She was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, Sept. 30, 1921. Her family was neither down-&-out nor well-to-do. Her Scottish father's handsomeness was distilled, in her, to a gentle beauty. She still shows the benign effects of a limpid childhood and shines quietly with another unpurchasable endowment-an ineradicable gentility. Thanks to an ex-professional aunt in Bristol, Deborah, early in life, had several years' stiff training as an actress. Later she took a whirl at ballet. But her well-padded, 5 ft.-7 in. frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Born | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...kids who called themselves the Band-busters-when he was twelve. They played high-school dances in Philadelphia. Five of Lawrence's current bandsmen are original Bandbusters, including the singer, brunette Rosalind Patton, who sang an uncertain treble for the orchestra when she was eleven, is now a limpid-voiced contralto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Purple Moodmaker | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...With limpid, vivid clarity, Jeans explained the mysteries. He did not stop work as a scientist, but gradually his scientific work took second place. He lectured, played the lion, his comings & goings across the Atlantic became almost public events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Golden Age Interpreter | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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