Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persuaded. On March 8, 1949, he signed the document creating the new Indo-Chinese Republic which he would head as chief of state. As he left the gaudy safety of the Riviera for the hazards of a country torn by civil war, he grinned and said: "I risk my skin." French Communists snarled: "Cet empereur des boites de nuit [this nightclub emperor...
...such piddling tasks as telling 1) Northwestern Extract Co. to stop claiming that "Grape Sparkle" contains real grape juice, 2) a small greeting-card company to stop describing its cards as "plateless engraved," and 3) International Laboratories, Inc. to stop advertising that Moone's Emerald Oil will stop skin itch...
...Boston road scandal broke last month. Boston's Financial Commission drilled into year-old street jobs and dug up dishonesty and corruption. Where contracts called for excavations, back fill, crushed till, asphalt, oil, gravel, and hot-top asphalt, they found nothing but hot-top asphalt. The repair was only skin deep; beneath the hot-top asphalt lay the old street and fraud...
...Skin of Our Teeth," by Thornton Wilder will be the Dramatic Club's major production next fall. Wilder, who will be here as a visiting lecturer next year, will help the H.D.C. under the title of "general production supervisor...
...longest stories are the worst. They deal with trite subjects: a paunchy middle-aged business man who goes to a costume party in a leopard skin, and a callow youth who seeks adventure in Parses at night. M. J. Arlen wrote both. His style is drab and plot punch is seriously lacking...