Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person is a sheer materialist, the bodies are properly cared for until they go back, inevitably, to the soil...
...Mistress Mine marks the soth time that Lunt & Fontanne have played together on Broadway. Since 1924 they have acted in everything from Dostoevsky to Noel Coward, from high drama to sheer drivel. They have long been the most famous stage couple in the world-and year in, year out, probably the best box office. On the road, even when it had dwindled into a weed-choked path, they have never slipped. A week before O Mistress Mine opened on Broadway, it had a prodigious advance sale...
Fashion Note. In Chicago, a department store featured two brands of sheer nighties, found that "Sinners" outsold "Saints" three...
...vehicle for Victor Moore. The drab mediocrity of his role which calls for eternal petulance and peevishness makes even Moore become tiring. In the romantic lead, despite his age and figure, is that gay Casanova, William Gaxton; the obvious farce of love scenes between Gaxton and Marilyn Maxwell is sheer hypocrisy. To complete the scene Miss Maxwell hasn't the voice to sustain her in a long role and although she is one of the loveliest women alive today her costumes and heavy makeup never betray the secret...
...Navymen were prepared to agree that it was for "the good of the service." Many argued that no amount of zigzagging would have saved the Indianapolis. Said a U.S. submarine commander: "The Jap had a dream dropped in his lap. It's just sheer bad luck for McVay...