Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while his great & good friend, Hollywood's Merle Oberon, 38, watched his private plane take off for Venice, wealthy Italian Count Giorgio Cini, 30, was killed in a crash when he flew low to buzz the airstrip. Cinemactress Oberon cried: "My life is finished. There's no point in going...
...Brand New Horror. To Delacroix, color was a means of expressing thought and feeling; he saw no point in mixing his pigments in slavish imitation of natural hues. And in time his heresy became modernist orthodoxy. Though his contemporaries sometimes considered him just a prodigiously talented nut, posterity had, in fact, carried his philosophy of art to a subjective extreme that would have left Delacroix himself speechless with horror...
...weeks at a time she would concentrate on her radio show and get far enough ahead so that she could put in one week's work on the book. As a result: "The novel's slick, too, in places. Whenever I got to a dramatic point I found myself letting go with everything I learned in soap opera...
...Chicago, Hudson Dealer Jim Moran offered to transport any customer free from any point in the U.S., pay for his stay in Chicago until his car was delivered. In Detroit, the McMillan Packard agency distributed self-addressed postcards to its old customers, paid them $20 apiece for every tipoff that led to a sale. It looked as if the shakeout in the one big industry not yet affected by the recession might...
From that point on to its tragic end, most of Call It Treason is Happy's story. His plane had been spotted, and he found himself in a world where everybody seemed to be talking about spies. He had moments of luck (trucks that picked him up at just the right moment); he also suffered from blunders-his own and those of the men who had trained him. American phrases had crept into his speech, and his conversation had grown self-conscious and artificial. But he was principally separated from the people around him because he no longer shared...