Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, a famed chemist, Dr. James I. Hoffman, gave a sure-fire method for thwarting Halloween window-waxers: rubbing a thin coat of vaseline on glass surfaces before the young fiends arrive. Once windows are waxed, he explained, they can best be cleaned with gasoline, kerosene or turpentine...
...appearance than for any particular modieum of talent, George Sanders as Charles II displays the one lone semblance of real acting. DeMille-ish mob scenes, thousands of costly costumes, and the inevitable Technicolor lend a kind of facade of quality to something that is basically sham, but the too-thin vencer cannot completely hide a story that in essence is little but a collection of vicarious sexual experiences tacked...
...sector of Berlin last week, a thin-faced German picked up a copy of the Daily Bulletin, a Mimeographed paper for American employees of the occupation government. The first item caught...
Panning out the thin gold in Nevada's Carson Valley in the 1850s, miners cursed a heavy blue sand that clogged their rockers. In 1859, "Old Pancake" Comstock and three others, playing a hunch, staked out a 1,500-ft. claim around the mouth of a small spring where the blue sand was thick. They sent a sample of crumbly stuff across the mountains to an assayer in Grass Valley, Calif. He tested it twice, to be sure. There was no doubt: the stuff that gold miners had cursed and kicked aside was rich in silver...
Toward the end of the first act of "Sweethearts," Bobby Clark juggles his ubiquitous cigar on a cane and wonders if "there was ever a plot so complicated and yet so thin." Probably not; but the sting of the conjecture is mitigated by Clark's shenanigans, proceeding, as he does, to make the Victor Herbert musical noteworthy indeed. The stumpy comic with the skin-tight specs and vaudeville mannerisms compensates for the shortcomings of the rewritten plot, and should satisfy all but those with tin ears and antediluvian morals...