Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Washington (the first two volumes bring him up to the age of 27) is 1,013 pages of solid fact and educated guesswork buttressed with 5,440 footnotes, uncompromisingly set below the text. For the popular, novelized biography, full of glib insights into the inner man, Freeman has nothing but contempt. His dogged intent is to portray Washington day by day and "year by year, through each new experience, as if nothing were known and nothing were certain about his future...
...meal, in a spacious dining room from whose walls handsome young Lieut. Lee looks down. At 2 :30 sharp he is in bed. At 3 (he wakes himself almost on the dot) he begins his "second day." From his attic bedroom he steps into his study for 2½ solid hours of work on Washington. Here visitors, and even his family, are forbidden. On the walls are autographed pictures of his friends Winston Churchill and Admiral Nimitz, a letter from President Roosevelt thanking Freeman for suggesting the term "liberation" instead of the "invasion" of Europe, and a Helen Hokinson...
Symptom rather than symbol of the South's revolt, Strom Thurmond was the South's spokesman for an old, still smoldering issue. Thanks to Harry Truman, that issue had erupted again and was splitting the Solid South. The issue was black v. white...
...population of 1,904,725. It had passed Detroit and is pressing close to Philadelphia. Every month about 10,000 more people move in, to stay. Now the city was in the midst of another vast and significant change. To its agricultural and mineral wealth it was adding a solid industrial base. It now ranks first in four industries: aircraft, motion pictures oil-well equipment, sportswear manufacture. It is second in two: automobile assembly and tire production...
...past year Shelley Winters, 26, has made solid hits in two successive pictures. The other was A Double Life, in which she played the waitress who got strangled. She is no longer regarded as just another cute platinum blonde: she has graduated into the actress category. Her bosses speak hopefully of "an amalgam of Harlow and Lombard," and are billing her as "the blonde bombshell." If she is not as bold as Harlow nor as brittle as Lombard, she is frequently as bouncy as Betty Hutton and as breezy as Grable. Even in repose, she is still a nifty blonde...