Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rare truth." Nehru rose to speak, as usual seeming only to be thinking out loud. "I am a child of the mountains . . ." he said. "Sometimes you are on the mountaintops and can see the fields and the sun. Then, often enough, you are in the valley, but you can see the mountaintop. That is enough. I had been told, I must confess, that most Americans are very hard, very businesslike. I have found no hard side. I have found Americans very emotional and sentimental...
...have come down a long trail . . . We may stumble, but we will get up ... Raising India to its feet means hard work. Not so flashily dramatic, but quiet hard work. We may be on a mountaintop sometimes, and again in a valley below. This visit here is like a visit to the mountaintop, and I shall remember it when I am in the valley below...
...that had been made over to look like a gimcracked Victorian theater. The antique chandelier dimmed, and on stage the "Magnificent Scenic Mirror" (which Rathbone had found in the University of Pennsylvania Museum cellar) was slowly unrolled. Painted on muslin, it showed the myths and marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy and technique was more than made up for by its scope and unfailing liveliness...
Stroock & Co. had hardly wiped off the red ink from two bad years when Mrs. Murphy went to work. A graduate of Spring Valley (N.Y.) High School and Manhattan's Lusk Institute (now defunct), she learned fashion and fabrics by going to night school and hobnobbing with Manhattan's Seventh Avenue garment makers. Soon she was designing new weaves and color combinations and plugging the fleecy fabrics that go into the "Stroock Look." She was put in charge of advertising and publicity; when war came she helped supervise the company's mill at Newburgh, N.Y., was made...
...studio knew what it was getting. In his 14 years, Zanuck has won two Irving Thalberg Memorial Awards for high-quality production, two Oscars (for Gentleman's Agreement and How Green Was My Valley), and a reputation as Hollywood's outstanding topical trailblazer (The Snake Pit, Pinky). What Zanuck was getting: $260.000 a year (his present salary) for the next 10 years, then an annual $150,000 for his advice...