Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Powell, off his Ry-Krisp ands criminal diet for the occasion, does quite well as the gentleman whose ideas of life are set in cement, and he is an excellent straight-man to his prodigal wife. Some of the best scenes between these two, especially those concerned with financial...
One of the best laugh-provokers of the story was respectable Mr. Day's use of ungentlemanly language on occasion, but Dame Boston, of course, shuddered down to the soles of her high-button shoes and proceeded to make the show presentable enough for her charges. This literary vacuum cleaning...
As the Independence circled Rio de Janeiro's mountain-rimmed harbor, Harry Truman looked down on a city seething with excitement. Streets were bright with welcoming banners. Everywhere there were huge posters of Truman. A special Truman stamp had been printed for the occasion. For days, every band in...
Another champion was acting the part last week, after a slow start. Rapid Robert Feller won No. 17 for the season, as many as any American League pitcher. Cleveland Indian Owner Bill Veeck (rhymes with neck) celebrated the occasion by giving Feller a $40,000 bonus. Added to his regular...
...Gaulle. Reilly provides an occasional-if oblique-glimpse into Roosevelt's personal relationships with the world's political bigwigs. F.D.R., knowing full well that smoking in the presence of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud would be considered an insult, carefully refrained from doing so; just after the King left, Roosevelt lighted up-and gaily waved goodbye, the cigaret between his fingers. On another occasion, during a conversation between General de Gaulle and the Boss, Reilly sensed such ire in the General's manner that he says: "I was conscience-bound to remove my pistol from...