Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of the Army of the Potomac. . . . And yet I think it best for you to know that ... I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right...
...admitted, however, that the Council has deviated from its own constitution by forming the nominating committees on a House rather than on a class basis, but said that the deviation was hardly "arbitrary" since "the post-war class mix-up makes class nominations wholly impractical...
...movies could be taken with ordinary film cameras and with black & white film plus special filters. Technicolor needed about four days to print rushes, needed special cameras and technicians to handle them, thus cost some 40% more than black & white. True, Cinecolor had only two colors, thus could not mix all shades. Technicolor, with its three colors, had a complete palette. Artistically Technicolor was far superior. But in the sudden public demand for color-(bad movies in color were outgrossing fair black & white ones), Loss figured that audiences would probably not care, as long as the sky was blue...
...President drank Martinis ... a horror to all well-mannered drinkers." Peg erred. F.D.R. was an Old-Fashioned man. Apropos his own bottle habits, Pegler, like a small boy writing on a blackboard, once repeated, for an entire post-New Year's Day column, a pledge not to mix his drinks...
Some of the best of the loud bands that long ago had learned to mix swing and sweet would obviously survive the change, just as Guy Lombardo's creamy on-the-melody music had stayed on the top all through swing's craze. In Los Angeles Woody Herman and his noisy "Aw, Your Father's Moustache" brand of music was the big draw. But the word was spreading: the crowds wanted their music muted...