Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...substance the Soviet Vozhd* says this: 'We Russians intend to go on doing exactly as we please within the zone of the Red Armies whether you like it or not. The Soviet Union is going to rely primarily on good solid political and military measures and only secondarily on a possible United Nations Security organization. You cannot oppose us without endangering the common war effort...
...prickly pears, the insubstantial clouds and the hard rock. Velasco's love for the valley was not merely esthetic: it was founded on his knowledge of botany, geology, religion. He always read a Psalm before he tackled any major work; it added a touch of mysticism to his solid realism...
...tunes, however, especially More and More, Californ-i-ay, and the title song which is caroled in an early American bathhouse, are solid enough Kern, if a touch too operatic for the winter's juke boxes. And Miss Durbin, whose hair has been dyed a pleasing pink for her first appearance as a Technicoloratura, still sings charmingly and still suggests what she has only once had half-a-chance (in Christmas Holiday) to prove: that she is a big girl now, and could step out of her candy box to become one of the most high-powered sex-actresses...
Because it does not have to crowd the child's progressive deviltries into a few solid blocks of stage action, the film makes Emil a more thoroughly plausible character than he was in the play...
...Franklin Roosevelt, then at Warm Springs, wrote the pieces to fill in for his friend Thomas W. Loyless, the Telegraph's regular columnist. More often than not, his style was playfully folksy. Sample: "It sure is time to get another Democratic Administration." But in one solid column, Franklin Roosevelt objected vigorously to the way the 1925 Navy maneuvers in the Pacific were announced by the Coolidge Administration. Wrote he: "It is hardly tactful ... to give . . . the impression . . . that we are trying to find out how easy or difficult it would be for the Japanese Navy to occupy Hawaii preparatory...