Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creations while Malsin ran the business. He started retailing maternity wear by mail, added "stylish stouts," based "on the laws of optics, psychology and color." Making clothes for stout women, said Malsin, was not just making outsized versions of the "perfect 36." It was like camouflaging ships, the object being "to deceive the eye . . . as to the ship's size, its course and its speed...
...return to the American screen after a six-year absence, and he does full well by his opportunities as the flier on borrowed time. Kim Hunter, a newcomer, is equally well cast as the WAC. Her fresh and youthful appearance, unretouched by Max Factor, could serve as an object lesson in natural casting for American producers. Marins Goring, Roger Livesey, and Raymond Massey are other highlights of a cast entirely above reproach. Hollywood was well advised to exclude foreign productions from the Academy Award competition; if "Stairway to Heaven" is a fair example, they'd lose the Oscar for keeps...
Americans object if a man is considered superior merely because of his wealth, and yet we use this measurement of nations. History taught in our lower schools leads to faulty thinking, by whitewashing our part in wars, and calling our imperialism by less odious names. . . . Finally, we are too quick to think ourselves a Santa Claus when we give a trifle out of our plenty...
...made it clear that there would be no invasion of the department by the military. He approved immediate study of a "planning board" under the Secretary to 1) develop overall U.S. policy, 2) see that all divisions of the department conform to that policy. He indicated clearly that his object was not sweeping reorganization of the statute-ridden State structure, but changes to make the present setup work. Said one awed underling: "This Marshall, he wants things done...
...Japan's ancient national sport, in which specially bred-and-fed giants, clad only in jundoshi (breechclouts) and their traditional topknots, grunt and tug interminably, like slow-motion dancing bears. Object:' to force one's opponent down so that some part of his body above the knee touches...