Word: shiniest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into Los Angeles, installed herself as the madam of a call house and found plenty of prosperity. As business improved she shifted from the tacky Fedora Street neighborhood to plushier headquarters on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, later moved on to swanky Harold Way. Some of Hollywood's shiniest names became her steady customers. Brenda felt so secure that she even took a quarter-page ad in a film directory published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; it was a nice refined ad -just a couple of pictures of her, her name and phone number...
...must become a pianist," Paderewski told him. "You have such beautiful hair." In time, Harold Bauer, who had started as a violinist, did become a pianist, certain that he had chosen the most glamorous occupation in the world. He was one of the shiniest stars of the Hofmann-Schnabel generation, which broke from the grand, pernicious influence of Liszt with its dazzling displays of pianistic fireworks. Bauer found that the life was not all bows and bravos. In an amiable, rambling autobiography (Harold Bauer: His Book; Norton, $3.75), the 75-year-old pianist tells what it was like...
Against the dragon, Hunger, strode a new knight last week. Out as Food Minister went Sir Ben Smith, a pottering ex-cabby; in came a more dashing champion, glamorous, aristocratic Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey. Of all Labor's hopefuls his was the shiniest armor and the sharpest lance. Impressive showings in the House as Under Secretary for Air had gained John Strachey's advancement to "the stickiest job in the Government...
...facts: New York's 21st Congressional District starts at the Hudson River, where "white folks live on the hill," then dips into Harlem. Negroes constitute a third of the district's voters; the 21st has not elected a Republican in 22 years; in the shiniest days of the New Deal, the Democratic majority shot as high as 80,000 votes. Last week a Tammany perennial won by a squeaky 1,571 votes...
...Adventures of Tartu (M.G.M.-Gainsborough) enlists Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson and a cast like a jeweler's tray in the shiniest spy thriller since Night Train (TIME, Jan. 13, 1941). Many expert British melodramas baffle U.S. audiences because they are too exotically British. This one, directed in Britain by M.G.M.'s Harold S. Bucquet, is as intelligible to Americans as to Englishmen...