Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with flying colors (though once his personal colors almost hit the ground). His force (numerically superior, equal in fire power, inferior in air power and mobility) did more than just stop the Panzer outfits; it theoretically hacked units of the proud First Armored Corps to bits, backed Major General Oscar W. Griswold's army up a good 40 miles...
...Chocolate Soldier (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is apparently a new kind of double-feature picture. It has the title and some of the music of Oscar Straus's 33-year-old operetta, The Chocolate Soldier. For libretto, it has the plot of Ferenc Molnar's 30-year-old play, The Guardsman...
...shot grouse with Oscar Straus...
Meanwhile the Defense Committee, which also had had its doubts about the Alcoa contract, questioned Alcoa's Vice President Irving W. Wilson, Counsel Oscar R. Ewing, Chief Engineer Thomas D. Jolly in an effort to find something to damn. The Alcoans testified that they construed the contract to give the Government every right the committee thought the Government should have: final word on plant sites and specifications, permission to inspect Alcoa's own plants and cost figures for comparison with the Government-owned operations, etc. To criticisms that the contract set no starting dates, they replied that...
...Hampshire freshman entries will be Keith Birdsall, Walter Biery, Oscar Brown, Charles Carlson, Ray Churchill, Art Currier, Dick Dodge, Martin Feuerstein, Hans Hanson, and Rudolph Honkria...