Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from having found a defense against V2, Britain apparently still knew little more about the rocket bomb's makeup...
Claire Luce handles her role well, despite the fact that makeup and costume are too typical of the average theatregoer's idea of a prostitute. She also has a tendency to waste emotion on less important scenes, leaving little intensity for the climax. Much freshness and enthusiasm and an authentic Irish broque are contributed by Richard Hart, who looks like a young and relatively innocent Errol Flynn...
...joke to its competitors is the Bulletin's speed in getting to press with a big story, getting it to thousands of outlets. But its unhurried mien in other ways gives Philadelphians some chuckles. A few years ago its editors decided on new type, headlines, makeup. Changes were made page by page, week by week. Her public was hardly aware that the Old Lady of City Hall Square was changing her dress...
...Compromise. Part, if not all, of Stalin's letter was presumably conveyed to the Polish Cabinet. Concerted attacks in Pravda, Izvestia, Red Star indicated its contents. Said Pravda: "The Polish emigre Government, having fascist politicians in its makeup ... is living in the phantom world of a Hitlerite mirage. ... It has completely cut itself off from the real Polish people." Obviously there had been no change in the Russian attitude that 1) it will not deal with the present Polish Government; 2) the Curzon Line in eastern Poland is an immutable demand...
Also reversed in Al Mukhtar is makeup. Arabic is read from back to front, and from right to left (but from top to bottom of pages...