Word: soups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With painful talk about "moving on schedule to other positions," the Italians evacuated the city, leaving behind warehouses full of equipment. Perhaps by the standards of modern warfare the booty was not great, but to the Greeks, accustomed to eating bean soup and black bread and carrying hand-me-down arms, it was immense. This plunder was, after the strategic factors and the enormous boost to Greek and British morale, the third most important thing about the fall of Corizza. It was said to comprise enough small arms and ammunition to outfit two Greek divisions, more heavy artillery than...
...available talents range from a jokester butler who will keep a party alive by putting his thumb in the soup, to a concert 'cellist...
...Lady in Question" gives audience a look at much-boomed Rita Hayworth. The boom looks very much like the South Sea Bubble of L' Affaire Sheridan. The real substance of the picture is Brian Aherne, who, adorned with a paunch and soup-strainer, puts on a fine characterization not in line with his usual dashing roles. But still and all, the film is B minus stuff...
That noisy part of a symphony orchestra where big men thump, rumble, tinkle and crash away at drums, gongs, cymbals and triangles is known as the battery, or percussion section. Orchestra players call it the "kitchen." Like pepper in soup, the kitchen's function is usually to supply seasoning for the climaxes of a symphony. Only once in a blue moon, as in the cannon shots of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, does the kitchen get a chance to put on a solo...
...never smokes nor drinks, likes the same old-fashioned dances his boss likes, even likes to eat roasted soybeans, soybean bread, soybean soup. With a soul-deep belief in every Ford dream, Boyer last week was stunned with joy. His chief gave him authority to order a complete set of dies for the first road model of the plastic automobile...