Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make-up of the contribution card will have two effects: it will give added emphasis to student charities and will reveal the proportion the Council spends on purely administrative expenses...
...Astaire routine features a shelf-full of dancing shoes: trick photography at its grandest of course, but Astaire's grimaces when he sees a circle of shoes dancing on the floor, are enough to make the show worth seeing. Aside from a couple of Gershwin revivals, the music is no great shakes, but who cares about music when Fred Astaire is capering around the screen...
Construction of a new memorial to Governor Thomas Dudley, one of the College's founders, has been started on the Massachusetts Avenue side of Lamont Library. The new memorial, an ornamental terrace and sundial, replaces the Dudley Gate on Quincy Street, which was removed to make room for Lamont...
...many of the facts in the book are new that no such characterization can do it justice. Almost every page of this biography yields some new or little-known fact about Emerson or his contemporaries, and if the first result is to make his life seem slow and somewhat sad, the final one is likely to make his career seem even more extraordinary and his achievement even greater...
...Georgette (Friday's Child) Heyer's fans wouldn't want it to. Her so-called Regency novels (1811-1820), of which Arabella is the latest, are as slick, as painless and as inconsequential as the most languid hammock reader could wish, and they have helped to make her one of the bestselling writers in Britain today. Author Heyer has soaked up the speech, the manners, the pretentions and the social ambitions of her Regency smart set. She has been compared, say her publishers, to Jane Austen, and that fine writer is known to be Author Heyer...