Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within 21 miles of Lake Balaton, central Europe's largest, reached 72 miles from Austria's nearest frontier. Mud was a curse. Moscow newspapers told of one unit that wallowed through mud for days, finally reached its first highway. Men cheered when they saw the narrow ribbon of asphalt, happily lay down to sleep on the unique comfort of firm ground...
...villain jeers at his enemies, "You fall out among yourselves. . . . Victory is a nightmare to you. . . ," the screen play makes articulate a fierce and needed admonition to all men of good intention. When Miss Gates, cajoled in a sinister way by Mr. Coulouris, nervously binds and unbinds the hair ribbon of her precarious girlishness and stares with swelling excitement into her mirrored face, she makes clear a notably mature and unexceptionable bit of sexual drama. Better still is a beautiful, sudden moment in church when, at the utterance of the word "victory," the girl bursts into uncontrollable tears and hurries...
...applauded 42 times during the address, to which the blue-ribbon audience paid closest attention. After the ovation he was wheeled out again, and the diners went off to argue the question only Election Day would answer: was the speech as good...
Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., oldest U.S. reprint firm (1898), has quietly piled up profits for years with 50? to $1.98 reprint editions. In 1938 Doubleday, Doran & Co.'s various reprint subsidiaries (Star Dollar, Blue Ribbon, Triangle, etc.), not content with slow distribution through the nation's 1,000-odd wholesale booksellers, branched out through Woolworth and other chain stores, aiming at some 7,500 distributors. Pocket Books Inc. (25?) with 70,000 outlets through news dealers, last week sold its 100,000,000th Pocket Book, while paying out its first $1,000,000 in royalties. Simon & Schuster Inc. made...
...ignored the New Deal speakers (ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson, ex-Ambassador to Norway Mrs. J. Borden Harriman) to gape at a 1944 campaign hat designed by Sally Victor, the topical milliner. The hat, "The Commander in Chief," is a light blue beret with a red-white-&-blue cockade and ribbon, to sell for "about...