Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play itself would be classed somewhat below standards of American comedy, for it has spots where the writing drags, but in production under the fine skill of the director, these parts vanish in laughter. The freshness and frivolity of the performance places it on the "must" list for all who enjoy a laugh...
...King Solomon's loving wife, Balkis the Most Beautiful, saved her lord from the vexatious quarreling of his 999 other wives. As Solomon strolls in his garden he overhears a butterfly & wife quarreling. The butterfly threatens that if he stamps his foot the palace and garden will vanish in a thunderclap. Solomon, amused, calls up his Djinns, enables the butterfly to make good his threat. In the end Solomon is surprised to discover that clever Queen Balkis engineered the whole thing, to silence the 999 quarreling wives...
...Caucasus and through Turkey are also threats to the Indian Ocean and its seaways. The Japanese have narrowed the Axis pincers from the east. If the Axis finally shuts the pincers and controls the Indian Ocean, China's hopes of supplies through Russia and isolated India will vanish; the only remaining feasible routes from the U.S. to the Middle and Near East will be lost. Russia would have to fall back on uncertain, insufficient Arctic routes...
Once again throwing his scrubs into the fray, McCoy saw this tremendous lead slowly vanish in the face of a determined prep counter-attack. But the stellar first five started the last quarter and soon had things well under control. Frank Bixler, Capt. Mike Keene and substitute forward Sam Post led the scoring with eight tallies apiece...
...reveals intimately an insight into our innermost feelings. Let us rather rejoice that we can continually experience through the music of a sincerely inspired man those vital emotions of love, sorrow, and joy. Let us not be swept along with this current to a Tschaikowsky-phobia, which must inevitably vanish and restore the great Russian master to a deserved high place among music's immortals. Andrew Baggaley...