Word: limpingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beast was no longer skinny and bag-kneed; its once limp and drooping trunk now swayed with menacing promise. But the G.O.P. elephant mostly drowsed or shifted from foot to foot. Every time the Party seemed about to wake up, a red-faced, elderly mahout named Harrison Spangler tiptoed up and made quiet, shushing nursery-noises until the pachyderm was soothed and drowsy again...
...boss of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony last week made a good start at his new job. This was a great relief to all concerned with the oldest U.S. orchestra. Arturo Toscanini's resignation, in 1936, had left the Philharmonic as limp as a discarded ventriloquist's dummy. His successors, British-born John Barbirolli and a string of guest conductors, had failed really to strike up the band. But when 49-year-old, grey-thatched Artur Rodzinski left the podium last week, the audience had heard some pretty musicianly music and even the skeptics were hopeful...
...treacherous Nazi major, Richard Nugent as a British doctor, Carl Harbord as an English ex-typesetter who likes poetry. Even more gratifying is J. Carrol Naish as the innocent, bewildered Italian prisoner, shooting the works in an entirely new kind of part for him, after years of playing limp, narcotic petty-gangsters...
When I say "all of us," that is no unpremeditated lapse into an editorial We. . . . A copy of TIME, either size, goes a route here in the Aleutians. . . . Limp and dog-eared, they probably end in some hut's trash, but that happens only after months and after all the maps and stray glamour pix have been scissored for pinups...
Robert Young's limp sideburns evoke the period as sharply as the best of the sets. Adolphe Menjou and Reginald Gardner are atmospheric. The fact that Cinemactress Grable's histrionic legs are here shrouded in fancy skirts may sadden her admirers. But she makes up for that in one high-stepping number which has something of the shock value that might result from watching grandma, in the bloom of her youth, chuck an old rip under the chin with the toe-point of her slipper...