Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week some minor progress on minor issues was visible, but the major deadlocks remained unbroken. Of these, the most delicate and troublesome is the question of forced or voluntary repatriation of war prisoners. Someone had the bright idea that if the Communists were allowed to save face by secret negotiations, agreement might be reached...
...gulp") marriage of Li'l Abner to Daisy Mae. Though Abner has been close enough to the altar to whiff the smoke from the cigar of self-made Magistrate Marryin' Sam, Cartoonist Al Capp always stepped in, in time's nick, with a save. Once, at the crucial moment, a gas explosion blasted Abner into a tree out of Daisy Mae's reach. Another time, after Preacher Sam had completed the $1.25 ceremony (with "hootin' an' hollerin', catch-as-catch-can rasslin' . . . and several embarrassin' jokes told in a loud voice...
Ticket Printers. The New Haven railroad put into service in Manhattan's Grand Central Station two new automatic ticket-printing machines. Made by the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., the printers can turn out 650 different tickets to 160 destinations. The printers save the railroad the cost of stocking big inventories of tickets and in a matter of minutes total up ticket sales, a job now done tediously by hand...
...everything from a horsecar to thin air. In fact, the picture itself is mostly thin air. It is a Technicolor trifle in which Astaire, a turn-of-the-century playboy, falls head over dancing heels in love with Vera-Ellen, a mission worker who also dances. Revivalist Vera-Ellen saves Sinner Astaire, but not all their fast stepping can quite save a plodding picture. This pretty period piece is punctuated with a few chuckles provided by Marjorie Main as a Park Avenue dowager and Keenan Wynn as Astaire's comic sidekick...
...would appear from C. S. Forester's volumes on the subject that there were not many days in the early 19th century that Horatio Hornblower did not save. Doubtless he could have saved more, except that good manners ordained he should leave a little something for Admiral Nelson to do. However, Author Forester has long since carried his hero over the crests of his adventurous life, and in recent installments has been filling in the troughs...