Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easygoing way, Boutet de Monvel spent an enormous deal of research on his work. His studio was piled high with authentic costumes for the children and servants to sweat in, while he painted them (he never even sketched without models). Later, all this was to be a boon to Hollywood. When Producer Walter Wanger and Director Victor Fleming were making plans for Ingrid Bergman's Joan of Arc, they found tips for both costumes and settings in Boutet de Monvel...
Rocket enthusiasts have dreamed for years of "multistage" rockets with detachable sections that drop off, one by one, after their fuel is exhausted. Dr. Robert H. Goddard, U.S. father of rocketing, patented such a missile, but never succeeded in building one. During World War II, the Germans toyed with the idea. One of their antiaircraft rockets, the unsuccessful Rheintochter (Rhinemaiden), was pushed into the air by a booster that dropped off after rising a mile and a quarter. But no one shot a multi-stage rocket to really high altitudes...
...going to give him a thrashing. Schermerhorn had just read Bingay's new book, Of Me I Sing (Bobbs-Merrill; $3.50),.and he didn't like what Bingay had written about his father and his uncle (James Schermerhorn, once editor of the Detroit Times). Sample: "I have never met a more precise and perfect example of a hypocrite...
...years ago, Richard Strauss wrote to his friend, Conductor Max Reiter in San Antonio, that he was dedicating his last years (he is now 84) to "straightening out my house," reworking old compositions that had never satisfied...
Blum's candy had been always handmade. As a result, such stores as Dallas' Neiman-Marcus and Manhattan's Lord & Taylor never had enough to satisfy the customers. Says Fred Levy: "We planned it that way. We make everybody want it, then make it hard...