Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press campaign after another. Perón and Bruce seemed to hit it off well together. Bruce, a millionaire who knew how to run a business, never lost a chance to lecture the President on economics. "Let the Argentine economy alone," he kept repeating. "Don't tinker with...
...years "because I did not feel solid enough, either physically or morally, to wield authority over men . . ." As a lonely alternative he took up painting, switched to etching when he found he was color blind. His technical perfectionism was the despair of Meryon himself ("I should have been a tinker"). Combined with his gloomy appreciation of Paris' medieval buildings, it gave his prints the quality of polished mirrors reflecting a magnificently sinister world. "I see an enemy behind each battlement," he once told a friend, "and arms through each loophole...
...Tirana, the tubby little ex-tinker Koci Xoxe met the ultimate end of all unregenerate purgees. Once the general secretary of the Albanian Communist Party, Xoxe was shot by a firing squad of the same secret police he had once organized. Also convicted of being "plotters against popular democracy," three other pro-Tito Albanians got stiff prison terms...
...Port Chester, N. Y.; Antonia Handler Chayes of New York City; Mary Davis of Suffolk County, L. I. N. Y.; Alice Gilbert of New York City; Alice Gossard of Wollaston; Muriel Kaplan of Chelsea; Jennifer Seltridge of Red Bank, N. J.; Raya Speigel of New York City; Irene Tinker of Wilmington, Del.; and Naney Woodman of Wellesley...
...trying to tinker with the Grable formula, Director Sturges comes perilously close to forgetting the Grable form. Betty sings only a couple of songs, gets no chance to dance at all, and gives only two rather fleeting leg shows, once in an old-fashioned Pullman berth and again in the midst of a gunfight. A Sturges experiment is always worth watching, but most moviegoers would probably have settled for more Grable and fewer gags...