Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...costly as it is, other observers doubt that anything except a Thudwunk would throw noodles. One possibly significant variation on this story came from Nanking, where a Thudwunk was observed throwing beef Stroganoff followed by kasha à la Gourieff. This has led inflammatory elements of the Chinese press to suggest that Thudwunks are the creation of a certain foreign power. The Chinese Air Force is alerted...
...same sort of unpromising lowbrow crank as the Crimson evidently imagines Gerald Smith to be. Well, the Reverend Smith is not even now an ineffectual angel; he is held by many, and with reason, to have been the main organizer of the wartime Detroit race-riot. This would suggest that there is a nonacademic quality to Smith's oratory, that his propagation of racial and religious hatreds is closely allied to non-verbal political activity, that a speech by Gerald Smith might safely be defined in advance as incitation to violence. But Americans are rightly averse to any abridgement...
...Orleans (United Artists), which deals with early jazz, tries hard to give its subject the love and enthusiasm it deserves. In many respects, the movie does no more than clumsily suggest the fine picture that might be made about jazz. An elementary history of the cellar art, New Orleans barely hints at the fascinating redolence and toughness of New Orleans' red-lighted Storyville, where jazz was born, and little of it is imaginatively filmed...
Generalissimo Chiang: "I do not suggest that the millennium is in sight...
...head of national French opera houses, told him: "Mr. Rouché thought I would be a wonderful Thaïs." Hirsch was flummoxed. He had never heard of her, and he had taken Jacques Rouché's place, when Rouché was removed as a collaborator. "Does Madame suggest an audition?" asked Hirsch politely. "No," said Edis, "Madame suggests a rehearsal of Manon." She got the rehearsal, got the job, and in her Opéra-Comique debut in February got 13 curtain calls, a rarity in Paris...