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...about CINCUSA (Commander in Chief of United States of America) as a synonym for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the President, F.D.R...
...Emma Cons' musical, driving niece, Lilian Baylis, who brought the Old Vic back into the limelight by putting genius ahead of gentility. She introduced the new "moving pictures," then opera and concerts, finally the repertory company that made the Old Vic a worldwide synonym for Shakespeare...
...that the Canadians are in all-out action, Crerar has become more affable and relaxed than he used to be. When his army crossed the Seine and chased the Germans beyond the Somme, he observed that the action was not a fight but an unprintable synonym for a ratrace...
...from a captured howitzer, Mosby smashed a locomotive, got away with a $173,000 Union payroll. Often trapped, he invariably escaped by charging headlong into his would-be captors. Often wounded and reported dead, he always turned up again more daring and dangerous than before. His name became "a synonym in the South for brave deeds and daring escapades, a byword in the North for fear and hatred and chagrin...
...movie audiences, larger than ever before, know, better than ever before, precisely what they want. And except for an occasional hit, they have begun to show a marked distaste for war pictures. They are fed up on tragedy and brutality. Serious ideas are usually repugnant, and beauty is a synonym for Betty Grable. Movie-goers of 1944 do not want to be uplifted, edified, harrowed or sermonized. They just want to be entertained...