Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight, tourists who went out to Xochimilco found the boats untended, their flowers wilted. An old boatman named Cecilio ("Negro") Pacheco explained why. He leaned over the side of his canoa, plunged a muscular arm into the murky water. "Look," he said. His arm caused a sucking sound as it went up to the elbow in thick mud. "Who wants to ride around Xochimilco...
...Some were lured, and many of them began buying Billy's M-G-M records. By last year, after his Fool that I Am had sold around 200,000, Billy, a big, well-set-up (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) boy with flashing white teeth, had begun to look like a top crooner in his own right...
This doesn't look too bad at all; but since it takes two to produce one, the average '24 man and his wife are .26 below scratch. And, if a Harvard man were to marry the average Radcliffe girl, (who seems to be able to produce a measly 1.35 children) the danger, or extinction point, might well be approached. A Vassar girl might help matters somewhat: they're batting a fat 1.49, or tops among eastern college women...
...great failure of the book is Mr. Blanshard's unwillingness or inability to look to the root of some of the strange anomalies which he merely touches in scanning American Catholicism. Were he to investigate "the core of faith" which Catholic liberals cling to "even when they look with repugnance on the autocratic ecclesiastical system imposed upon the people by the priests," he might gain valuable insight into the more important non-political motives of the Church. As it is, his disdain for the hierarchy blinds the balance of his insight so that he never separates the mystic from...
...Rank; Universal-International) is chiefly notable as a starring vehicle for Sarah Churchill, onetime chorus girl, WAAF officer and stage actress, and second daughter of Winston Churchill. It is also an inoffensive little picture-which is fortunate for U.S. moviegoers who may be curious to get a close-up look at this charming chip off a famous old block...