Word: troweled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schmaltz could have been dumped on with a steam-shovel, piled high and gooey. But it isn't. It's laid on gently with a medium-sized trowel. This admirable restraint makes "Knute Rockne, All-American" one of the better football pictures of the year, one of the better biographies...
What Historian Adams fails to supply with respect to the last decade, onetime Manchester Guardian Correspondent Muggeridge heaps up with a highly artistic trowel. As a documentation of that decade, The Sun Never Sets is almost feverishly brilliant, almost invariably malicious, a story more rewarding, more exhausting and giving an impression of being less dependable than Frederick Lewis Allen's similar job for the U. S., Since Yesterday (TIME...