Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however, it had to be that way. Three weeks before the story was due Researcher Blanche Finn asked Dennis for an interview. He turned the matter over to his publicity man, who asked Miss Finn to submit her questions in writing. She did. The publicity man took one look at the questions, declared they were "too knowing," and refused to give the answers...
...yearned for a new convertible with the top down-something with the weight of a cruiser and the look of a juke box. But he backed out of the garage in whatever car he had and set out. There were a million places...
...York, decided the Russians, might conceivably be all right as a place to visit, but they sure wouldn't want to live there. The daily Vechernyaya Moskva took a long look at Manhattan's skyline and found it little more than "an accumulation of flat surfaces, a chaotic mass of styles, like monstrous stalagmites . . ." Furthermore, Manhattan's topless towers are dangerous and uncomfortable. On windy days, "lamps swing and water splashes . . . The inhabitants of the Empire State Building can hardly experience great pleasure when the tremendous building swings with the wind and one can clearly hear various...
...children's finest hour. All over London small boys in grey flannel shorts and school caps could be seen walking solemnly about, cheeks bulging, a look of supreme contentment on their faces. All over Britain, pink faces were blissfully smeared and little fingers were wonderfully sticky. After seven lean years for British moppets, candy rationing ended last week...
Columnist Elsa Maxwell rated first place on Hearstling Cholly Knickerbocker's annual list of the world's worst-dressed women because "she could put on an exquisite creation by Christian Dior or Jacques Fath and look as if she were wearing a sack of potatoes." Trailing Elsa came sexagenarian Musicomedienne Mistin-guett ("Continues to display her gams . . . has refused to adopt the new look"), Alice Roosevelt Longworth ("Doesn't have the time to bother about such things"), Signora Rita Togliatti ("Not born with good taste"), Cinemactress Greer Garson ("Draperies and dresses are not the same thing"), Gypsy...