Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time Charles de Gaulle was smiling, cordial, no longer unbending. His mission was obvious: to regain U.S. affection for France. He stepped out of the big, silvery Avro York plane jauntily, moved rapidly through the line of stiff-standing French officers to greet Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes. Then he walked to a microphone. The General's English was slow, but he had brushed up his vocabulary...
...without serious qualms-many a troubled family wondered if their pink-cheeked tot could readjust to life in Milwaukee, Wis. or Kennebunk, Me. Last week, as 69 young British war refugees started home again, some of their U.S. foster parents wondered how England would readjust to them. It seemed obvious that some changes would be made when the Empire's small fry got back...
...Economist Hansen, devout disciple of Britain's John Maynard Keynes, severed his relationship with the Federal Reserve Board, no one took the trouble to say last week. But to observers in Washington the reason was as obvious as the Federal Reserve building's big bronze doors through which he had passed so often...
Picture, if you can, Johann Strauss as a Don Juan in Sinatra clothing acted by an insignificant George Rigaud, who, though portraying the role of the Vienese Waltz King took no pains in disguising an obvious French accent. Picture Ralph Dumke as a mediocre W. C. Fields, General Grant popping in and out with trite world peace comments, Beacon Hill prudes condemning the immoral waltz, ballet scenes dragged in now and then, all this with gaudy costumes, plaids of all descriptions and colors splashed on the stage...
With several obvious deletions, removal of some dialogue and most, if not all, of the opening dream sequence of Act II, "Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston" should have a prosperous run on Broadway, that is, as long as Miss MacWatters and Mr. Stolz remain with the company...