Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his eight solid years with Paramount, Bing has played every type of character from a river romeo (Mississippi) to a rough sketch of himself (Sing...
...Next Big Offensive." The first word, early in the week, was that 40 British transports had arrived at Peiraeus, the port of Athens, and were unloading troops; that other transports were due at Salonika-only 60 miles from the nearest Germans in Bulgaria. Then came a far more solid hint. The Greeks announced that their destroyer Psara had sunk an Italian submarine as it attempted to attack a convoy on its way through the Aegean Sea: the convoy was presumablv British...
...With a solid N.Y.A. report, a parietal rules recommendation, and a report on education under its belt, the Student Council has settled down into a late-winter lethargy. Only two brief routine ballot checking meetings have been held in the last six weeks, and at one of these exactly five of the seventeen representatives of the undergraduate body showed up at meeting time. The only meeting which has had anything like full attendance was the one at which a life photographer was also present...
...most of the facts about U. S. defense production have made dreary reading. People have been fed promises of future production until they were fed up, have had very little solid news of production now. Last week they had a satisfying mouthful of such solid news. The cautious Wall Street Journal added up the February output of the chief U. S. military aircraft engine makers (Wright, Pratt & Whitney, Allison). The totals: about 2,600 units, up 200 from January, up from a piddling 200-300 units since September 1939. Prospects were even brighter: 2,800 in March...
...invoking almost every great emotional appeal from the Nativity to The Star Spangled Banner, the largest possible music had better come out. Anything else may topple artistically from sheer pompous top-heaviness. When Capra-Riskin open up the cinema organ in Meet John Doe, what comes out is not solid but uncertain musical structure (in the middle of the picture they even fall back on coy effects with a small dog), not so much Bachian power as Lisztian super-schmalz. Their organ often sounds not so much a classic organ as a Mighty Wurlitzer-its tremolos too tremulous, its diapasons...