Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, ailing Robert F. Wagner, the most solid of all New Dealers, surprised all experts by running ahead of F.D.R. to swamp colorless Tom Curran, Tom Dewey's personal choice...
Wild bells (but perfectly controlled) rang out last week from the spire of Leicester Cathedral. For four solid hours campanologists* listened critically and with delight to the Cathedral's bashing, bonging bells hammering out the 5,280 changes of the Cambridge Surprise Maximus. A cause of further delight to those in the know was the fact that one of the twelve bell ropes was pulled by a 15-year-old girl...
...American pioneers were often crusaders. But they were chiefly "solid, sober, cautious" citizens who firmly believed in hanging on to their scalps. Crafty pathfinders like Daniel Boone were not glamorous storybook characters; they were "heroes because they were . . . men who did not get lost...
...Solid Booking. In Chicago, Pearl Feld worked 38 years at the Public Library, retired to catch up on her reading...
...Have and Have Not (Warner), having jettisoned a solid 90% of the Ernest Hemingway novel, for which Warner Bros, paid plenty, may make devotees of Hemingway the sourest boycotters since Carrie Nation.* But the sea change which Producer-Director Howard Hawks supervised-for the benefit of Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy (Star Dust) Carmichael, and a sensational newcomer named Lauren Bacall (rhymes with McCall)-results in the kind of tinny romantic melodrama which millions of cinemaddicts have been waiting forever since Casablanca (TIME...