Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...improvements $20,000,000) had become a profitable combination of poor man's Nassau and rich man's Coney Island. Last week, when the U.S. Maritime Service opened its second largest training station for merchant seamen on Catalina's crescent-shored Avalon bay, only the shape of the island remained as William Wrigley left...
...with the help of three dress rehearsals that lasted most of three nights, the show was in pretty good shape for its' swish Washington premiere. The first-night audience, which included Eleanor Roosevelt, the Maxim Litvinoffs, the Harry Hopkinses, was enthusiastic if occasionally irreverent : when Actress Cornell tossed herself too quiveringly into her lover's arms, the house roared with laughter. Afterwards the bigwigs trooped backstage. Amid his congratulations, Harry Hopkins voiced a complaint: "No man would say good-by to the woman he loves wearing heavy leather gauntlets...
This pattern is not visible to the eye, nor when projected. But the light from a projector lamp is diverted by the aberration patterns into a conic shape that spreads out over the lens. Charles Birch-Field's iriscope adds the colors-reds in the outer regions of the lens, blues in the inner...
...clothes of every sort, size, shape and description are desired by the solicitors and spaces have been provided on the posters for the occupants of rooms to sign up to have their rooms canvassed...
Robert Taft had looked ahead: last month Bricker was elected Governor for the third term with a whopping majority, was in shape to challenge Taft's hold on the Ohio delegation two years hence. Besides, politically wise Robert Taft saw brewing a clash between liberal and Old Guard wings of G.O.P.-a confirmed middle-of-the-roader like John Bricker could maybe line up the in-betweens and the Old Guard, keep Robert Taft out of the cold...