Word: snub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life thus far, according to this picture, has been busy but mildly boring for Composer Porter (Cary Grant). As a youth with a talent for songwriting, he annoys a wealthy grandfather by walking out on his Yale law books. Pride prompts him to snub the girl he loves-a well-to-do blonde (Alexis Smith) who longs to support him. Eventually wed, famed and wallowing in royalties, he gets into domestic hot water by neglecting pretty Mrs. Porter for his fascinating work...
Street lights swung suspended in midair like furry halos. Snub-nosed busses, bunched in convoys, crawled in low gear behind inspectors pacing ahead with lanterns. Three passengers were killed in a suburban train crash; hundreds of fenders were dented...
Killed in Service. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); in the crash of a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter; at Burbank, Calif. The round-faced, snub-nosed flyer returned from the Pacific last January, married his Wisconsin sweetheart and was assigned to test-flying...
...questions about the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle. Would he still be strong enough, by the time of France's national election next fall, to keep the right and left in suspended solution? In Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's position had been further weakened by the snub given him by the United Nations' Conference on International Organization in San Francisco. Italian leaders, after seesawing for weeks, had at last formed a new Government but were promptly faced by a new crisis. Even in Britain, the fiercely fought general election campaign was a test to see whether...
Married. Judy Garland, 23, snub-nosed cinemingenue ; and Vincente Minnelli, 38, who directed her in Meet Me In St. Louis; she for the second time, he for the first; in Los Angeles; one week after she divorced Bandleader-Composer David (Holiday For Strings) Rose...