Word: offhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stankevich was the latest to apply for admission to the lodge. He told nine British and U.S. correspondents who asked why Mukden's factories were stripped (see FOREIGN NEWS) that the Big Three had okayed these Russian removals "either at Yalta or Berlin-I'm not sure, offhand...
What was probably the last word belonged to the New Yorker's Wolcott Gibbs, whose review had not yet appeared. Said he: "I'd say offhand that there are only about three newspaper reviewers here who are competent to write about anything, but it is absolutely absurd to make an issue out of this play, which has no merit whatsoever...
...Like offhand remarks, artists' sketches sometimes have a persisting value of their own. Last week both Chicago's Art Institute and Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum featured big shows of drawings. Together they provided two backstage glimpses at Europe's art history...
They were married in 1886. Worshipful, practical Mary Tytler Watts took him to Egypt for their honeymoon, and they went up the Nile in a diohabeah. Mary reverently recorded all the master's offhand words in her diary...
...nearly so elaborately produced as some prewar French films (Story of a Cheat, Carnival in Flanders), It Happened at the Inn also lacks much of the expert, offhand humor of its nearest kin, The Baker's Wife. The new French humor has a hint of violence; there is violence, too, in the insistence on being funny. In the old French movies, you could take the jokes or leave them alone. In It Happened at the Inn, the humorous situations are of a sort you must either take or reject. U.S. audiences are likely to reject quite...