Word: scorch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today The Father, in addition to its pathological excesses, wears a period air. Yet on a watered-down Broadway, a play that is all scorch and bite is worth reviving. Unhappily, last week's revival was more in the nature of a coffin nail. It lacked skill, perception and tension: at its best it could only serve up gall and wormwood as a kind of sizzling platter. As the wife, Mady Christians did, at any rate, sizzle now & then. As the husband, Raymond Massey merely spouted, as if announcing all the terrible things that did not seem...
Among the U.S.'s most beautiful Negro women (listed by John Robert Powers in Ebony magazine): Contralto Marian Anderson ("an impressive personality and most presentable manners"), Mrs. Ralph Bunche ("dignity, attractive personality, character and a wonderful, soft, feminine beauty"), Hollywood's Scorch Singer Lena Home ("the best example I know of 'outer glow' and 'inner glow' delightfully joined...
...scorch all earth of all but one machine...
...Kuhn charged that the man who mid-wived the new group, Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York, was engaged in unfair persecution of the Bund. Indeed, Dickstein had been attacking the Bund furiously. It was his idea that a small body of Representatives peering into "un-American activities" would scorch and harry Nazi and Fascist propagandists in the United States, and if Dickstein had been appointed chairman, the American public would doubtless have been displayed of one of the wildest, weirdest extravagant side shows since the Tennessee monkey-trial...
Born. To Dinah Shore, 30, dark-eyed scorch-singer, and George Montgomery, 31, cow-puncher-turned-cinemactor: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melissa Ann. Weight...