Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Changes Coming. The listening officers broke into applause, and many a naval eye was awash. They rushed forward to wring his hand. "Admiral Denfeld," said Missouri's Navy-minded Dewey Short admiringly, "I don't know what you had for lunch, but brother, it was a correct diet. There will be a lot of starch added to the shirts of the Navy." Chairman Vinson added gravely: "You have rendered a distinct service by putting the chips on the table...
...death last February when he started writing it. As his publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons, told the story: Hemingway suffered blood poisoning in February from a fragment of shotgun wadding that lodged in his eye while he was shooting wild fowl in Italy. Doctors gave him a short time to live. Feeling that he could not finish the novel "of large proportions" that he had been working on for years, he started writing a new one, went right on with it after throwing off his illness. The 300-page book's subject: World War II. Its title: still...
...stiffened joints of arthritis has been to scrape the ends of the bones, then wrap the exposed bone surfaces in a smooth material to keep the scar tissue from sticking the joint together again. But in the knee joint, where wear & tear is heavy, such an operation gave only short relief: as the material wore out, the joints stiffened up again...
...dumb blonde. Cy Howard, her CBS creator and co-author of the screenplay, has seen to it that in her first screen appearance, Irma (Marie Wilson) is just as her fans would have her. She keeps the butter in the oven, the egg beater under a sofa cushion; she short-circuits the plans of her boy friend (John Lund) and her roommate (Diana Lynn), and in general does everything in the least rational way possible. None of this is very funny and much of it is downright silly. But since almost all of Irma's blunders turn out right...
...years, but his stories are still read by people who like tart, sharp character sketching, mildly risque situations and ingenious twist endings. Even critics who think his work contrived and superficial will mainly agree that no other writer save Chekhov has so enormously influenced the shape of the modern short story. De Maupassant's own life story, as told in Francis Steegmuller's breezy and readable biography, seems itself like one of his more mordant sketches-flashy, melodramatic and highly painful...