Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generation of writers and actors and cartoonists and illustrators which focused around the offices of the World and The Players and The Dutch Treat Clubs. He has long since receded to the blander pleasures of upper-middle-class suburbia in Stamford, Conn, and -with a mild sheepishness about the stylish address, and sincere enough murmurs about the Websters' susceptibility to colds- winters in Palm Beach. For years the Websters were enthusiastic theatergoers; now they wonder whether anything is as much worth coming into town for as the last show they saw, Oklahoma! Webster used to play poker every Friday...
...most cosmopolitan and busiest Roman Catholic church in the U.S. is Manhattan's Church of St. Francis of Assisi. Unlike big, stylish St. Patrick Cathedral, St. Francis is small and sandwiched off among office buildings in a crowded section near Pennsylvania Station...
...months Manhattan theatergoers were titillated by the stage play. The film's plot is the same: British Novelist Charles Condomine (Rex Harrison) lives stylishly in the English countryside with a stylish wife (Constance Cummings) and is badgered by the unladylike ghost of his first wife (Kay Hammond). Producer Coward and Director David Lean have done little more than photograph Author Coward's play. In focusing the main attention on the brightly brittle script, they have overlooked a rule which Hollywood rarely forgets: to hold their customers, cameras have to keep on the go. Result: Blithe Spirit is surfeited...
Thrill of a Romance (M.G.M.), which is a gently feeble-minded title, suits the action to the words. The main thrill for bobby-soxers and stylish stouts is rosy Van Johnson, a sort of air-conditioned Charles Ray, whose boyish charm is honest and home-cooked enough to keep the men in the audience reasonably fair-minded while the women wallow. The main thrill for the pants-&-Paris-garter trade is Esther Williams ; she has the kind of body-displayed in a protean series of bathing suits-which you may dream of but aren't inclined to talk about...
...says, 'Let's go out to dinner and be stylish about...