Word: peacock
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...question that Detroit's methods are different; there is a question of how flexible they may prove if design changes come too thick & fast. Detroit's biggest single venture into aircraft-the titanic Ford plant at Willow Run-has yet to show its stuff. Last week peacock-proud Charlie Sorensen showed newsmen the first B-24-E bomber off Willow Run's half-mile long assembly lines, predicted a ship an hour by late summer. Said he: "[This plant] is an invitation for Hitler to commit suicide...
...stone-deaf Lady Strickland's Maltese garden a land mine blew the tail feathers off her prize peacock, blew Lady Strickland off her feet. She remarked, as she got up: "At last I've heard something." Last week all the Maltese heard something they had been waiting long to hear: thunders of noise that meant an even chance of pasting the enemy back after almost two years of being pasted. Malta had gotten important reinforcements...
...fragrance of incense, the throb of Russian choir music, a dazzle of peacock blues, flaming reds and gold filled the Baltimore Museum. It was also filled with socialite art tasters and leather-jacketed shipyard workers who had come to see "The Golden Age of the Russian Icon"-sacred pictures from the ancient towns of Holy Russia (Kiev, Novgorod, Moscow) in the religious setting that alone gives them meaning...
Pole vault-R. Sheridan, Andover, 12 feet; second, L. Wright, Harvard, and Peacock, Dartmouth; fourth, Rogerson, Harvard...
...charm. Its reconstruction of World War I society is very near the life. So are the performances of young Croft and Miss Colbert. This first-rate melding of an understanding script (Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis, Allan Scott) with superior photography (George Barnes) and music (Alfred Newman) is a peacock feather in Director Henry King...