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Turks called them good-humoredly "Soviet Cinderellas." recalled that they were all dressed in dark, nondescript suits of no recognizable fashion when they landed at Istanbul with their eminent Soviet husbands, chubby War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, ferocious-whiskered Cavalry General Budenny and jovial Commissar of Education Bubnov...
...this point the interview was interrupted by a small, white, nondescript dog who was trying to climb into the interviewer's lap. "Johnny, get down," ordered Miss Williams, but Johnny was inclined to be disobedient. "You see, Johnny is really an important member of the cast, even though there was no part written for him in the play. He comes on the stage and whines and misbehaves, and is terribly restless, and doesn't realize he's on the stage. He makes everybody laugh when they should pay attention to the rest...
Providence is full of screw factories and steep nondescript streets. In the country there are no tawdry yellow lamps. There are a thousand trees, and each tree has a thousand thousand leaves, and each leaf falls to the ground where there are million grains of earth. In the calm of night, thought flows effortlessly like a great river, and embraces the whole world. The clamor and confusion of day are swept from the brain and a single eye comprehends the essence of all things. The imagination plays in a jewel-box ideas...
Americana (Joseph Patrick McEvoy, librettist; Lee Shubert. producer) is dedicated this year, "with special permission of the copyright owner Frank D. Roosevelt," to the Forgotten Man. The Forgotten Man himself, a nondescript in an ill-fitting suit, wearing an undersized brown derby, is presented in the flesh. He is impersonated by foolish-faced Don Barclay, who rises to sing about himself in the opening scene: With hope in his chest And an egg on his "vest- With pride in his glance And a shine on his pants- Uncle Sam needs a man who can take it! Comedian Barclay has little...
...indeed the beloved leveret will frequent his castle no more, the university has suffered an irreplaceable loss. A nondescript jackrabbit might satisfy the vulgar and undiscriminating, but only the original leporine monarch or his direct descendant could command the loyalty of the legitimists...