Word: squeakly
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...vaudeville the absurdity of Savo's silent comedy was heightened by the persistent squeaking of his shoes. Last week his shoes didn't squeak but what his admirers regretted most was that Mum's the Word closed after four showings. Savo's clowning evokes a world much more fey. much less relevant to the real world than Chaplin's, and Savo's few attempts at solemnity never approach Chaplin's. But to anyone who enjoys Savo's world, a whole evening of it isn't too long...
...look better on Park Avenue. On a Mediterranean cruise he eyed churches in Greece, Italy and Turkey as models, visited quarries and factories to get the marbles and materials he wanted. At last week's dedication he heaved a sigh of relief because everything had arrived safely. Narrowest squeak: the tesserae (small pieces of marble, glass, gold leaf and enamel) which make up the apse's mosaics. Shipped from Venice, they got out just before World War II put a stop to imports from Italy...
Encouraged by the way Britain's tough sea dogs were chasing Italy's new warships to cover, Greece timorously voiced defiance, but with a stiletto prodding her left side and Nazi gunmen aiming at her head, her shouts sounded like a terrified squeak...
...defense emergency for a powder mill to be operated by private industry, owned by the Government. Du Pont had signed one like it last month (for a plant at Charlestown, Ind.). These contracts were the first moves made by the U. S. Government to increase its pip-squeak peacetime powder supply. All Government powder now comes from three plants - Du Pont and Hercules and the Army's Picatinny Arsenal near Dover, N. J. - and Picatinny is on little more than a laboratory basis...
...long time U. S. Labor has been a house divided. Every little squeak for peace has been drowned out by the bickerings of A. F. of L.'s William Green and C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis. Mr. Green has called Mr. Lewis many an unpleasant name: "an enemy of labor ... an autocrat . . . consumed with personal ambition." Mr. Lewis has called Mr. Green a "pusillanimous little man who sees ghosts at night and pays the penalty for his own perfidy ... a frightened little man . . . inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity ... his mind a little weak...