Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bald a Proposition." That was the sum of Hughes's charges -for the time being. It was Owen Brewster's turn. He plunged right in: "It is inconceivable to me that anyone could seriously contemplate that anyone who has been in public life as long as I have-in the State Legislature, as Governor, in the House and Senate-could, on such short acquaintance and in one short meeting, make so bald a proposition as he describes. It sounds a little more like Hollywood than Washington. I can assure you that I never...
That seems to be the sum of this tale of sound and fury, and if it weren't written and acted by idiots, it would seem a lot more real, and a lot less fun. Scene the Best: Laughton, fawningly in love, tries to show wifey he's the strongest man in the kingdom, and takes on a wrestler, only to beat him, and then have to be carried away himself. Toughest problem of the picture: which is the more pathetic, Henry Tudor or Charles Laughton trying to be Henry Tudor? There are a couple of obstacles to be overcome...
...evidence. After one dinner for Elliott, Johnny had meticulously jotted down the item of $200 as "presents for four girls." There was another cryptic notation of $50 for "girls at hotel (late)." From the summer of 1943 to the autumn of 1945, Meyer figured, he had spent the whopping sum of $5,083.79 on fun & games for Elliott Roosevelt and his friends. In December 1944, Elliott married Faye...
...word "control" has no meaning for a collection of pictures and nostalgic, informative articles. The '47-'48 Album has a gap of $5000 to fill, now without purveyor advertising, and it is impossible for the Student Council, which has helped many such books, to pay so large a sum out of their treasury, which is intended for other purposes...
...Madrid, the daily Informaciones erupted in a front-page editorial, titled TIME and a Lady. Excerpt: TIME'S cover story last week "narrates the trip of Doña Eva Perón to Spain with such bad taste, stupid style, lack of good behavior, so boorishly in sum that we find ourselves obliged as well-born people to declare our profound contempt, our nausea, not only at the useless falsehoods this narration contains but at its grossness, coarseness, its undissimulated irritation and its lack of respect for a lady, the wife of the chief of a state...