Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit of the exchange. Some 900 U.S. servicemen married Newfoundland girls. Yank troops visited Newfoundlanders' homes; islanders were invited to the Americans' parties and theaters. To all appearances, the hospitable Newfies and the free-spending Yanks had worked out a near-perfect landlord & tenant arrangement with never a thought of breaking the lease...
...President Perón," said Dr. Ivanissevich, "never leaves a faucet running more than is absolutely necessary. President Perón, when he leaves a room, puts out all the lights himself. In this way he saves money which would otherwise go abroad to pay for coal and oil. General Perón is also very careful about his clothes. You will never see a spot of dirt or cigarette ash on his suit, and that is not simply because his servants remove the stain. It is because he does not soil his clothes. When a suit gets dirty...
...stage together." Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads. Among huge fish, crawling monsters and enormous yellow butterflies, danced a coquettish, bell-shaped madonna. Exulted Dali: "I have never done anything so absolutely my own as this...
...tailored, severely handsome woman of 47 who never wastes a word (or a dollar of production costs), Producer Crawford went from her native Akron to Smith College, and then straight to Broadway. She joined the Theatre Guild as a part-time secretary, worked her way up through odd jobs to casting director, quit in 1931 to become a founder and director of the fiery young Group Theatre, which launched Clifford Odets, Sidney Kingsley, William Saroyan, Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, John Garfield...
...across the years, offering an assortment of period costumes, family tragedies, marital crises and extramarital complications. Alfred, for whom every age proves a dangerous age, is incurably romantic and roving. Lynn, facing one ticklish domestic situation after another, knows the wise wife's formula for holding her husband: never a cross word and always a puzzle...