Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, to the Folies-Bergère's first new revue since the war began. Called C'est de la Folie (It's Madness), this latest mounting of a spectacle that has more tourist appeal than the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower was decidedly up to snuff. It was so glamorously dressed and undressed by turns that the critics slid right over its dull tunes and dreary gags to write rave reviews...
...late winter he goes up into the hills to live with Massot, the shepherd. "Madame Massot received me with clasped hands. . . . She was an agreeable country lady, very ugly; with so much goodness in her blind eye, so much goodness in her moustache, in her snuff-taking nose, in her sagging cheeks, in her black-lipped mouth, that she was frightfully ugly. It was an ugliness made of all that sacrifice, of all that martyrdom which constitutes real goodness...
...inch water glass, a 40-watt light bulb, a snuff box, a fish hook, ink bottles, a lemon, an apple, ox horns, chicken bones, a frozen pig's tail, a cold cream jar, whiskey glasses, an iron...
...irons, toasters, and washing machines, household use of electricity went up 9%. Life insurance ownership ran to an all-time high of $154,600,000,000. Chicago's cattle supply was bigger than it had been since 1929, but hog deliveries were the lowest since 1872. Sale of snuff rose to a record 44,000,000 Ibs. At year's end 175,000 striking General Motors production workers had suffered an estimated wage loss...
When Winston Churchill spoke to the world, his rhetoric growled and rolled like a magnificent thunderstorm. Plain Mr. Attlee could hardly hope to equal Mr. Churchill's sound effects-but last week he was told that his delivery was not even up to snuff. The verdict came from CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow...