Word: studdedness
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Apparently a few Americans still entertained some illusions. The U.S. sponsoring committee was studded with the well-intentioned, the gullible, the confused, and salted with Communists. The committee was headed by Harvard Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who has long had red stars in his eyes. Besides such unsurprising names as Henry...
Under a Manhattan auctioneer's gavel went 65 gold, gem-studded snuffboxes and watches collected by the late great Tenor Enrico Caruso.
Late that night, a deafening roar awakened the village. All knew it was an ayapana (avalanche), which to the Indians meant "an earthquake from above." Tons of mountain mud, loosed by the rain, poured over Sondondo. At daybreak, survivors saw only rock-studded earth where once 30 trim houses had...
A Woman's Secret (RKO Radio) might better have been kept under lock & key. Producer Herman J. Mankiewicz, a veteran scripter who should have known setter, scraped this one right off the bottom of Vicki Baum's rhinestone-studded jarrel of slick fiction.
Quartet (Rank; Eagle Lion), British cinema's talent-studded gift to Somerset Maugham on his 75th birthday, is a neatly packaged film based on four unrelated Maugham short stories. Expertly scripted by R. C. Sherriff (Odd Man Out, This Above All, etc.) and urbanely introduced by Author Maugham himself...