Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orchids to TIME for your splendid article on Kansas Prohibition [TIME, Sept. 9]. . . . Kansas dry laws are as big a farce as Mississippi's Bilbo. In Wichita one can purchase a fifth of Schenley's, Seagram's, or even Old Granddad for only...
Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston created a little stir of his own in the world of couture. Confided the Mayor to a visitor: on his back was a splendid tattoo of a schooner in full sail. The word spread like wildfire. The press clamored for a look. Then the Mayor, who is still under sentence for using the mails to defraud, became unapproachable. Boston wondered...
...softest compassion." Chimed the Daily Graphic's Elspeth Grant: "[A] magnificent . . . performance in a specious play. . . ." Wrote George Bishop of the Daily Telegraph: ". . . Magnificent poise ... the dignity of a queen. . . ." The News Chronicle's hard-eyed Alan Dent: "Eileen Herlie's powerful, central and splendid performance makes us long to see her in something saner." The often hard-boiled Noel Coward said simply: "We have seen the birth of a great tragic actress...
...coast-to-coast audience could savor the bilingual ambiguities of such Sablon songs as Le Fiacre, the success story of a married woman and her lover. As they are driving about, their coach accidentally runs over the husband, who has been secretly tailing them. The wife looks out, observes: "Splendid, Léon, it's my husband. . . . Give 100 sous to the coachman...
Students at "Thunderbird College" will be taught Spanish and Portuguese by Army speed-up techniques, learn to appreciate what Dunne calls "such splendid institutions as the siesta." By last week the Institute had accepted 119 applications, hoped to enroll 250 students before Oct. 1. Biggest source of prospects: such export-minded businesses as the Sperry Corp., Pan American Airways. Tuition: $1,450 (room and board included...