Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Refreshingly sweet was the Allied Control Council's unanimity on sugar taxation for Germany last week. Treacly sweet was the notation that: "British and American representatives associated themselves with an expression of congratulation by General Koenig to Marshal Sokolovsky on his elevation to the high rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. Representatives of the U.S., the Soviet Union and Great Britain also congratulated General Koenig on his promotion to the rank of Army General." Such sugar-coating could not hide the fact that the four powers had not agreed where it mattered most: coordinated control of Germany...
Their black-and-white style is peculiarly fitted for motion pictures. Cain's "Mildred Pierce" and "Double Indemnity" and Chandler's "Farewell My Lovely" (filmed under the title "Murder, My Sweet") were made into pictures of real power. Chandler's latest is "The Blue Dahlia," a story of three discharged Navy fliers just back in L.A. from the South Pacific. One of them, played by Hugh Beaumont, is the straight man; there's nothing wrong with him. William Bendix, who has never turned in a bum performance, does a beautiful job as the ex-gunner who has a steel plate...
...after day, in thousands of homes, dressmakers bumped around on their knees with their mouths full of pins. In 3,050 U.S. counties marriage-license clerks filled out documents with callous haste, barked, "Now jusraizyurighthands!" Florists toiled. Bakers baked. Female clerks batted eyes, gushed: "Something blue? Blue garters are sweet." Thousands of perspiring bachelors took a quick drink, straightened, and went out to give themselves up. Judges, justices of the peace, clergymen paused, cleared their throats...
London's war-scarred Tate Gallery brimmed last week with the sweet & sour cream of U.S. art: 240 paintings by everyone from the razor-sharp 18th Century Portraitist John Singleton Copley to his blunt-edged fellow Bostonian, bitter, 31-year-old ex-G.I. Jack Levine...
...Five." After hours Lu took some of the boys to a roadhouse in the hills back of Oakland, where they tried out the hoedowns, marches and blues of old New Orleans until dawn. By 1939 Waiters had his own twelve-piece band, playing the accepted mixture of sweet and swing. Soon they gave up playing regular ballroom dates. Says Walters: "It was ruining my lip, having to play soft. I wanted a jazz band or nothing...