Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every main intersection, the cops were knee-high in mounds of cheese, nuts, cake, fruit, beer, wine, liquors, and an occasional mug of shaving cream. One Roman police sergeant estimated that before Befana was done, each member of the 130-man traffic police force took home an average of four bottles of wine plus a pound of pasta...
...Beautiful & Bland. For 20 years Manhattan's Liturgical Arts Society (dedicated to "improving the standards of taste, craftsmanship and liturgical correctness current in the practice of Catholic art in the U.S.") has battled this kind of traditionalism. The society's main argument is that beauty is not necessarily bland or strictly based on tradition. This week it backed up the argument with examples : the society had commissioned ten modern sculptors to make church statues for exhibition in a Manhattan gallery...
...Theme. Stationed on the West Coast, Percy spent his spare time studying West Coast industries and the causes of strikes. His reports so impressed McNabb that when Chuck Percy was discharged (as lieutenant), he became Bell & Howell's industrial relations and personnel director. As such, he plugged his main theme: workers had to be given a sense of importance and "belonging" to the company...
Said Western's President Terrell Drinkwater: "We have reached a point in air transportation where we must decide whether the main tent or the sideshows are going to support the circus. Anything which does not contribute to safety, speed and comfort is a costly frill with which we can well dispense...
Ralph Blane's nostalgic melodies and Ben Blue's old-fashioned but highly polished comedy are the main assets of this remake. The others are Newcomer Dorothy Malone's winsome singing and the earnest performance of Dennis Morgan...