Word: tippings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tip-off to "Mother Wore Tights"--at least to its non-musical moments--comes in its first thirty seconds. Seated in a rocking chair, as the picture opens, and rocking gently to the accompaniment of some Twentieth Century Fox violinists who play that as yet unforgotten song beginning "M is for the many times I've missed you," an old and gray Betty Grable knits while a nostalgic female voice reveals over the sound-track that "there sits Mother." Fortunately, the picture rapidly retreats into the past, showing Mother when, as the title does not quite suggest...
...inventions," which fall somewhere between Rube Goldbergian complexity and a shaggy dog story. (Example: a slot machine "which blows off steam, lights up, whistles, makes five minutes of loud silence when you put a dime in it, eventually returns your coin-it's for giving yourself a tip in a self-service restaurant...
...latest Disney picture is meat for all. Outside of the antics of Bongo the Bear, "Fun and Fancy Free" is an unfortunate collection of talking goldfish, precocious beanstalks, and puerile platitudes; a collection that might keep a nursery school kid on the edge of his tricycle; but will certainly tip over no Oscar...
Their action followed by six months an anonymous tip that the Faculty had approved existing arrangements between the University and Radcliffe...
Canada's wedding gift to Princess Elizabeth will be antique silver and a Canadian wild mink coat. The silver is just what she wants for setting up housekeeping, Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced last week. He got the tip from 64-year-old Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, wife of the former Governor General and a relative, by both blood and marriage, of the bride.* Princess Alice herself will select the silver, which will then be inscribed with Canada's best wishes...