Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haynes, who is assistant librarian of Widener Library, announced that 75 solicitors are canvassing officers and employees of the University, and he hopes to reach the $40,000 goal before the week is over. Undergraduates will be asked to make their contributions in the coming Student Council Combined Charities drive...
...they're ag'in it. "Black-view," they claim, "it doesn't make any difference, but front view!" Although a few are resigned to letting their girls make their own decisions, the majority likes its women--women...
...That Forsyte Woman" was a potentially great film because there are few women in contemporary literature who would make as fascinating subjects to characterize as the Irene of John Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga." An adequate portryal of this subtle, beautiful woman in her relations with one of England's nouveau riche dynasties would require consummate skill and perception. Unfortunately neither Greer Garson nor her lovers (Errol Flynn, Robert Young, and Walter Pidgeon) showed this; but they were not entirely to blame...
...States, he has been showing his sugarwater imitators how it's done. Yet none have been able to match his polite gurgle, his discreet fizz; and none have provided so charming a label as his sketches, or been so deft at dabbing up little literary excesses before they make a mark...
...publishers call The Eye of God (the name of the local mountain) a novel. It isn't. Anecdotes don't make a novel any more than edelweiss make an alp; but when Bemelmans does the picking, they make a bright nosegay...