Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture is a swing version of the Little Annie Rooney that curly-locked Mary Pickford played to the last tear drop 17 years ago. Shirley is a modern jitterbug from the other side of the tracks. Her talents so stun a rich Manhattan youngster (Dickie Moore) that he invites her to his socialite birthday party. Clad in a glistening, gold-spangled evening dress, Cinderella Temple jitterbugs her way into the Social Register hearts of her boyfriend's parents...
...always wanted is to win the war. The scrapping of present dies for munitions (TIME, May 18) and war's speed-up of industrial invention are bringing extraordinary changes nearer. Soon after war's end, Americans will be able to ride in cars that look like a tear drop, an egg, or a flatiron...
...malevolent turn. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann: "Hitler has brought France back into the war." Cried a De Gaullist spokesman in London: "Think of that flabby hand, that evil lip, that shifty glance, that sneer of the executioner - and tell yourself that for 30 years France has not shed a tear without Laval gaining...
...Sullivan, the girl whose Scotch has real flavor, are currently playing and singing there. Basie is such a genuine master of his mode of expression, he even makes the vaudeville seem fairly unobtrusive. In fact there are four couples of jitterbugs that do not once make you want to tear your hair, and who actually seem to belong in the show, because the Count plays...
Lean Years. In Chicago, the American Institute of Laundering issued a plea to diners to help reduce laundering wear & tear by leaning well over the plate...