Word: sop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allowing its prize package this lapse in physical supremacy, Republic may be taking a grave risk. Previous box-office receipts indicate the country likes him rugged. Possibly as a sop, Republic gives the customers some extra favors. Long-legged Tap Dancer Ann Miller (Too Many Girls) swings through a lively dance routine, croons a torchy ballad. Jimmy Durante garbles his Bronxese with dialogue like: "I resemble dat remark! . . . Dat's libel! . . . It's libel to make...
...dozens of top-notchers, put its cards on sale. Prices: 5? to 25?. Artists Harry Wickey, Rockwell Kent and Adolf Dehn began the Christmas card project in 1935. None of the artists made pictures expressly for cards; works were chosen for their reproducibility. But three years ago, as a sop to gum-chewers, the Group added a side line: Christmas cards of conventional kind, designed by professional illustrators. There are now 1,500 cards on the Group list, to which 200 a year are added. The 168 participating artists get 10% royalties, ranging from an average...
True to a custom in Washington (a supposed sop to pacifistic civilian taxpayers), Gene Reybold sat down at his desk in shirt sleeves and mufti, a pair of tortoise-shell spectacles camouflaging his military nose. Like most Army men out of uniform, he managed to look more like a country doctor than like the top-flight soldier...
Baldish, pug-faced "Ugly" Barratt has been chief of the R. A. F. in France since last January, when, as a sop to Army chiefs who demanded control of the air arm, the Air Ministry picked him as the best expert on Army cooperation problems. Under him are two commands, Army Cooperation and the Advance Striking Force. One cooperates with the British Expeditionary Force, the other with the French Air Force...
...Secretary: Anthony Eden, a sop to U. S. anti-appeasers...