Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before...
...Prettier Picture. This week the News's well-documented series brought quick action. Democratic Mayor Martin Kennelly hastened to announce a meeting of top housing experts to "consider" the News's charges, while Chicago's city councilmen and metropolitan housing council got ready to investigate on their own. One Chicago judge ordered a landlord to tear down a building listed in the News series, and show the court a picture of the empty lot or face a $2,200 fine. As a result of the News series, a bill before the state legislature to tighten up housing...
...with Trills. The test could hardly have pleased Lincoln Kirstein more. Mezzo-Soprano Bible, whose best roles heretofore have been a couple of light-hearted male impersonations (Cherubino in Figaro, Octavian in Rosertkavalier), never looked prettier. She trilled out her coloratura passages like a flute, and also shook the rafters with a few stunning fortissimos. Baritone George Gaynes, who is Rosalind Russell's leading man in Broadway's Wonderful Town, took a night off to play the part of the prince's scene-stealing valet, and indulge in some jaunty clowning. Biggest joke of all was John...
...final version, she couldn't have looked prettier to Paramount tycoons if she had been fitted with Lana Turner's head. When Paramount's advertising director saw the finished product in Manhattan he turned to his secretary and bade her take a wire to Producer Irving Asher in Hollywood. "Say this " he instructed. "This girl is Miss Crosby! Don't let anybody teach...
...exhibit of Dutch pictures at the Royal Academy. Sir Gerald, a peppery, blunt-talking, 74-year-old Irishman, is famed both as president of the academy and as painter of over 40 portraits of his wife ("I paint her because I don't think anyone has a prettier wife," he once explained...