Word: out-of-the-way
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...Brooklyn home of Novelist Sholem (The Nazarene) Asch, jazz was forbidden because it was bordello music; cowboy ballads were allowed. One of his three sons, Moe (for Moses) Asch, 40, has become the nation's No. 1 recorder of out-of-the-way jazz, cowboy music and such exotic items as Paris street noises during the liberation, and little-heard Russian operas...
...governments) to ravaged countries. At least twelve million tons of grain, nine million tons of coal must reach Europe from the Americas before July. Needy countries will call for other foods, clothing, fuels, building supplies and machinery. Long port delays, irregular schedules, return trips in ballast, diversions to out-of-the-way points, make this type of carrying unpopular with private shipowners, eager to get back to lucrative regular runs. It will be a job largely for the nations with "surplus" ships-more ships than they need to carry their own trade...
...cultural self-consciousness of prewar years was almost gone. U.S. artists were concentrating more on nature, and on themselves. Instead of the sterilized barnyards of "American Scene" art, there were carefully detailed, out-of-the-way beauties. Instead of hoggish politicians and slack-breasted shopgirls, there were powerfully expressionistic symbols of luxury-with the sting left out-such as Josef Scharl's rich, melancholy Babylonia...
...traded. Even these tricks would unload only a fraction of the supplies on hand. In Belgium, France and Germany the U.S. Army had $92.5 million of surplus locomotives alone. Nor would bartering solve the problem of what to do with goods deteriorating in out-of-the-way spots all over the world. Some of it would cost too much to move to possible markets...
Tone of a Sigh. Like most script writers, Author Morse is virtually unknown to the mass of radio listeners. Morse might pass for a professor. Spectacles cover his squinty eyes; he walks with a stoop. He is a painfully shy man who habitually secretes himself in out-of-the-way corners in restaurants. He writes-in a dingy little Hollywood cubicle-in rigid seclusion. By 6:30 in the morning Morse is locked in his office, crouched over his typewriter, and hoping for an idea...