Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apron is for innocence). Its ceremonies are based on biblical stories. The legend of the slaying of Hiram Abif, one of the builders of Solomon's Temple, is the background of much of the ritual. The world of Hiram Abif-in which hardware dealers, druggists, lawyers like to make-believe in off-hours-is a world of pious vows and moral refreshment...
Hero in Spectacles. Lloyd's career is the story of the triumph of sobriety. In 1917 he conceived the movie character which was to make him a fortune. Before that he had been an average American boy with a passion for the stage and magic tricks, who grew up to be a struggling young comedian in one-reel movie farces. At first he played a ragged, mustached character called Lonesome Luke, which he now admits was a poor imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Then he bought a pair of glassless horn-rimmed spectacles (his eyesight is fine) and studied...
...Obviously, it would be ridiculous for anyone to be loyal to those people who do him harm and wish him evil. Such people are his enemies. Even animals recognize their enemies and make war on them or at least defend themselves...
...Luxembourg's somber, gothic Chamber of Deputies last week, defense ministers of the five Western Union ("Brussels Pact") nations met to make further plans for unified arms production and service supply. They decided...
...increase of Western Europe's arms production without upping the total military budgets of the five nations. This could be done by assigning the bulk of certain standardized items to those nations which can make them most cheaply-for example, small arms to Belgium...