Word: sweetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coldly calculating on war losses up to 100% a month (the British calculate a maximum of 30%) by 1939 Germany was turning out planes at the rate of 1,000 per month, claiming capacity for between 3,000 and 4,000. And the planes they were, building were such sweet ships as tool through aviators' dreams...
...German victory, though it had to be won at times over odds of 6-to-1, was not only sweet but cheap in casualties, said the Führer (see p. 44). And now "German soldiers have once more firmly established the right to wear the laurel wreath of which they were meanly deprived...
...year Keller graduated (1901) Walter Chrysler lost his tuba, and the month Keller left the Mount Joy High School Chrysler married sweet-faced Della Forker in the Methodist church at their home town, Ellis, Kans. From then on, life was all business for Walter Chrysler. He left the railroad business as a shop foreman for Chicago Great Western, became works manager for American Locomotive Co., got his first job in the automobile business in 1911 (age 36) as works manager for Buick...
...away with the show, leaving the lavish sets sitting around without much to do. Bert Lahr may go rolling down through the annals of film history as an all-time high in Cowardly Lions. Even Judy Garland has accomplished the remarkable feat of being nice without being "sweet." A special order of orchids should go to Natalie Kalmus who handled the technicolor and nursed it one step further toward maturity...
...addition to writing such swing classics as "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Ain't Misbehavin'," Fats makes a specialty of taking hopelessly syrupy tunes that no other swing band would touch, and converting them into classics that keep the record collectors scrambling. Historic examples of this trait are "Sweet and Low" and "West Wind," with lyrics as only Fats can do them...