Word: overlaying
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Going Away. Although the "field" offered bettors five horses for the price of one, it went off at 15-1. From flag fall to finish, it looked like the overlay (disproportionate odds) everyone was looking...
...well-dressed man!" he indignantly insists) and curbs his hair, but he has somehow managed to retain the air of permanent dishevelment. Once ex-New Yorker Writer Margaret Case Harriman called Ross "that lovable old volcano," and the late Alexander Woollcott described him as "Dodsworth, with an overlay of violence." Ross is still personally noisy and professionally restrained, still charmingly churlish and intelligently ignorant, but his reputation for irascibility exceeds his performance...
...cream, coffee and liqueurs. They drank some 20 toasts, in vodka, white and red wine, champagne. One toast, proposed by Stalin, was for an absent man: President Truman. After dinner, the guests saw The Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27), a gentle Russian fairytale film with only a faint overlay of class consciousness. (General Mark Clark commented that the beautiful sorceress in the picture had something of the haunting elusiveness of the still unsigned Austrian peace treaty...
...along the West Coast the presence of enemy aliens became a suddenly, sinisterly glaring fact: Japanese and Italian fishermen along the water front, Japanese who worked all day on hands & knees in geometrically perfect truck gardens which sometimes overlay oil pipelines, Japanese settlements near big airplane plants and military posts...
...romance through the softer strains. As for the indispensable sex-angle, Audrey Christie leads al the other fifty-odd girls in the cast in laying it on with a capital S. Her dormitory-room strip-tease coached by Maxie and Sid gives the Old Howard touch with a riotous overlay of belly-shaking comedy that is burlesque at its best. It certainly makes Harvard seem a deathly dull place...