Word: limpidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign and internal policy." Giornale d'ltalia, no longer edited by Mussolini Mouthpiece Virginio Gayda (rumored a suicide), warned: "[Italy might have as much to fear] from her friends as from her enemies." Milan's Corriere della Sera, mutilated by the censor, voiced a widespread worry: "The limpid truths of the first few hours following the collapse of dictatorship have been succeeded by an atmosphere of perplexity and uncertainty, causing a feeling that the evolution has not reached the last stage...
...impressive. The watchful, sympathetic reader will find that Freeman has done something both courageous and important. More often accidentally than not, Never Call Retreat is an almost endlessly revealing record of the typical liberal-to-leftist mind and spirit, with all its hopes, doubts and occupational diseases as limpid as amber...
...eminent U.S. physiologist, Dr. Gustav Eckstein, has visited Japan often. He has been more interested in Japan than in any other country except his own. Since Pearl Harbor, Dr. Eckstein has been busy thinking about the Japanese, and writing about them. He has written a rambling yet limpid book, of uncommon charm in style, in insight as rich as it is unpretentious. If every U.S. citizen read this book, and digested it, the chances of a durable Pacific peace might be greatly improved...
...better knwon men in the band is clarinetist Rod Cless, for his work on the iabulous Muggsy Spanier Ragtimers' records. Perhaps his cool, limpid tone is not as immediately satisfying as PeeWee Russell's hoarser clarinet, but after repeated hearings, Rod is just as exciting. He plays a fine, clear melodic line that is remmiscent of Johnny Dodds...
Chief reason for the September boom was a whirlwind campaign by the motion-picture industry. Hollywood went bond selling as only Hollywood can-with publicity, stunts, and pretty girls. No. 1 bond-seller was Paramount's limpid-eyed Dorothy Lamour, who left her sarong in Hollywood and knocked them dead in street clothes. Dotty got off to an early start, has already sold over $30,000,000 in bonds. Another go-getter was Hedy Lamarr, who wangled 225 tired Philadelphia businessmen into buying $4,520,000 in bonds at a single luncheon. But her patriotism has a limit...