Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the opening, there had been a few false starts (Jane Wyman set her watercolor to dry in the sun, but an unexpected shower sprinkled it away). There were also some explosions of temperament (Ginger Rogers refused to let one cherished piece of her sculpture out of the house). But he-man Fred MacMurray double-wrapped his watercolor (Red Chimney) and sneaked it in the back door of the hall; Sigrid Gurie presented a painting signed "Sigrid" (after all, Van Gogh signed his "Vincent"); Mrs. William Powell, whose husband may currently be seen in Life with Father, offered a still...
Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, which counsels the President, took a long look at the falling barometer of commodity prices last week. Newsmen prodded him for a weather report. Was this a crashing cloudburst, or just a heavy shower that might clear away some of the hot air of inflation? Economist Nourse adjusted his pince-nez. This, he said gravely, was a time for "masterly silence...
...real and complicated economic problems involved in the Marshall Plan, makes it evident that any influence will be influence in name only unless it achieves an extraordinary amount of impetus. In a few short weeks, the Committee hopes to promote a rally featuring nationally important speakers, to precipitate a shower of letters and telegrams on Congress, and to set off simultaneous rallies in a number of other colleges. It will be something of a miracle if the Committee can accomplish this program on an important enough scale. But it is a miracle well worth a major effort to achieve, both...
Many of those on Anderson's lists represented normal market trading, there was a sprinkling of big operators, with no known Government connections. "But GOPresidential Candidate Harold Stassen peppered away at the Administration, accused it of withholding information and of creating "confusion and distraction . . . by a shower of irrelevant statistics...
...with presents and decorated with gay streamers, was hung from the ceiling. One by one guests were blindfolded, spun around, and allowed to crack at the pinata with a palo (stick). Usually they missed. Then the smallest child was allowed to split it open, whereupon everyone dived for the shower of candies, fruits and toys...