Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bethesda, Md., delivered to convalescing Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King at the Naval Hospital was the special gold medal authorized last year by Congress "on behalf of a grateful nation." The back of the medal bore a muscular charioteer with three plunging horses, the front side a rock-solid, very nautical admiral...
...Head Nurse Demussy. He also dredged up what looked like a macabre motive: the nurse's divorced husband said that she was physically incapable of bearing children. Had she committed 17 mad murders of vengeance against women undergoing operations to make child-bearing possible? Nurse Demussy, after 22 solid hours of questioning, did not give the detective's theory much encouragement. Said she: "Do I look like a monster...
...star of Easy Aces, he is an expert on the medium he loves to pan: "Now take the rating system. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. What do you think would happen if a drama critic said Finian's Rainbow was a good, solid 10.4?" In the old days, Ace scornfully poohpoohed Easy Aces' consistently low Hooperating by explaining that "the people who are listening to me are so crazy about the program they won't even get up to answer the phone...
Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME...
...candidate for the carriage trade, the Media was built for utility and solid comfort rather than flash. Her ample holds can carry 7,000 tons of freight. Her 250 single-class passengers have enough elbowroom in air-conditioned lounges to permit the illusion that they are traveling first class on one of the Queens-for the price of a cabin-class ticket ($260 to $290 each way). Facilities include a library, and separate bars and recreation areas for both passengers and crew...