Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girl. Eton was in no mood to change. For generations, Old Etonians have registered their sons at Eton the day they are born. (Some prospective fathers wire practically the minute their wives become pregnant, sometimes have to wire again: "Sorry, it's a girl.") Eton is booked solid...
Back from a long weekend, Congressmen settled back in their chairs, loosened their ties and sighed with satisfaction. Behind them was a week of solid accomplishment...
...That's solid, Jackson. TIME'S National Affairs editor is embarrassed...
...going?" said a voice with a strong Scotch accent. I stopped and looked. . . . On one of the rocks sat a very tall man, almost a giant, with a flowing beard. . . . Here was an enthroned and shining god, whose ageless spirit weighed upon mine like a burden of solid gold: and yet, at the very same moment, here was an old, weather-beaten man, one who might have been a shepherd...
...companions. With an urgent score by Hanns Eisler, Director Jean Renoir has concocted a climax in which two men quarrel at the top of their lungs against the deafening sound of squally water and orchestral fortissimo. To balance such experiments, which smack of artiness, Renoir has thrown in some solid domestic naturalism and an excellently staged Coast Guardsmen's dance. Best of all, he has eloquently suited the pale visual tone of the film to the pale air, sea and sand of the locale and to the story's mood of blindness, ambiquity and cryptic strain...