Word: teare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Center Theater has revived this fine relic of the last decade, giving evidence that the musicals of that time will stand the wear and tear of twelve years change in tastes. The frequent dance numbers are always solid stuff, especially one called "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," a comedy routine that is supposed to be unrehearsed. Berlin's music does not always shine so brilliantly as one would expect, but there's plenty of it, and it includes some excellent tunes. Best is the memorable "We Joined the Navy," which is perhaps replayed one time...
...kids used to tear-skate through the figures she was laboriously tracing. Sometimes they knocked her down. But she always got up and went carefully on. She never went home until she finished the required number of hours of practice, and when she did, it was often with chafed knees and dried tearstains on her cheeks. At eight, as the Spirit of the New Year in the Minto Follies, the Ottawa Journal called her "the darling of the show." At ten she became the youngest Canadian girl ever to win the gold medal,* and met Sonja Henie, who took Barbara...
...Minor, he faced the ticklish problem of making three rather schmalzy examples of Chopin appear credible. And his success was immense. In the Nocturnes, especially, the gently charm with which he played was a welcome change both from the rather brittle tone he usually uses and from the gooey-tear-stained manner in which Chopin's Nocturnes are too often played...
Charles A. Lindbergh, as durably boyish-looking as any celebrity of modern times, was beginning, at 45, to show signs of wear & tear. Week before in Hong Kong (on airline business, he said), he had asked the press to report practically nothing about him at all; now in Tokyo he forbade photographs; but the press went on working anyway...
...suggestion that it would do for an illustration in "any woman's magazine." Hopper had the painting in the back of his head "for 20 years, and I never thought of putting the figures in until I actually started it last summer. Why, any art director would tear the picture apart. The figures were not what interested me; it was the light streaming down, and the night all around...