Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would like to point out to you that, as in every good salad dressing, the proportion of vinegar and oil must be calculated with exactitude and balance. In this article your reporter appears to have been rather frivolous in the use of both these elements, converting a dream into a nightmare...
...West Point has graduated...
...private secretary. For an act or so, Alice dodged his lasso. Then, in the second act finale where things started popping in the old Viennese operettas, Alice announced to a party of distinguished guests that she had picked Secretary Smythe to be her husband. Though at this point Freddie loved her well, he found her procedure highhanded. When old Cowder offered him $50 million as an added inducement, Freddie sang with simple dignity: "I trample on your gold..." Cowder: He scorns my daughter's addresses! Freddie: Thus do I treat all dollar princesses! The Chorus...
Half a century passed, during which archdukes became practically extinct and even the golden hoards of the dollar princesses diminished. Last week, at the Moscow Operetta Theater, the Russians revived The Dollar Princess. They had decided that the story needed some changes-not many, really, just a point underscored here and an angle sharpened there...
Clarin was forced to take the plane back to Brussels. There, according to the plan, the authorities were supposed to send him back to London, and London back again to Brussels, so that he would dramatically shuttle back & forth until the world got the point (whatever the point was). But the Belgians did not stick to the scenario and put Clarin in the red brick prison known in Brussels as the Little Castle. For two weeks, the world citizen stayed in a cell together with two dozen common drunks...