Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London last week tired businessmen in nightclubs were once more coming into their own. Gone were the dashing, uniformed bucks with money to burn, the outrageous prices and the pseudo-Cuban bands which jangled jungle rhythms during the hectic war years. Back were the soft-sweet tunes of the '30s, the black ties, the long evening gowns. Champagne, which had fallen from favor when its price rocketed to nearly ?9, was on hand again at a Government-controlled ?3 a bottle...
...been aware that this was no ordinary strike. No one seemed to be talking about company profits or dictatorial union practices. It seemed that the seamen wanted more money and the companies were willing enough to give it to them, but that Washington, the wettest blanket at a sweet party, had said a lond and determined...
...Home Sweet Homicide (20th Century-Fox), based on a Craig Rice whodunit, is the carefree story of a mystery novelist-widow (Lynn Bari) whose three crime-conscious children happily solve a neighborhood murder...
Neighborhood audiences who get a few good laughs of recognition out of Home Sweet Homicide's appallingly familiar children may not mind if the film's mystery and its romance also stay in an all-too-familiar groove...
Just why Brazilians had temporarily deserted their lively sambas for a sad-sweet tango about the pampas seemed explainable only by Brazilian saudades-a special Latin kind of homesickness for things and places they have never seen. When last heard from, Adiós, Pampa Mia was heading north. U.S. citizens could get set for a tango in the jukeboxes...