Word: velveted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small plants tucked away in Brussels, and in nine other plants spread all over Belgium. Now, Operation Zwingle is turning out 5,000 reconditioned trucks a month, soon will double that. In devastated MÜnchen-Gladbach in Germany, the Army is also rebuilding motors in its "velvet shops" (salvage is velvet...
...Rockefeller grant) the films "which faithfully record, in one way or another, the contemporary life and tastes and preferences of the American people." Last week the Library announced that its first selections for the archives included 45 features, 48 short subjects, 104 newsreels. Among the feature winners: National Velvet, Going My Way, Meet Me in St. Louis, Wilson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, None But the Lonely Heart, Two Girls and a Sailor...
...effort as a producer. It dutifully records the Boston Strong Boy (Greg McClure) as he rises to fame and florid magnanimity - through his unhappy marriage with a betighted showgirl (Linda Darnell), his un happy love for a Boston girl (Barbara Britton), his still unhappier fondness for training on Black Velvet (champagne & stout) and the inevitable consequences at the hands of Jim Corbett. After that came his long, pitiful period as an alcoholic has-been and his ultimate salvation - with the Boston lady's warm approval - as a temperance lecturer at Chautauquas. The picture shows an uncommonly dogged desire...
...curiously mixed crowd-aging ladies in purple velvet and flowered hats come to recall a bygone day, brash youths come to scoff at a legend. Silver-haired Ruth St. Denis, 67, high priestess of the dance, was returning to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall stage, with Ted Shawn, 53, her husband and partner from whom she had separated 13 years...
...Nazi occupation (despite one death report) in Morocco, put on a private fashion show to let Paris friends see the too-chichi gowns and hats she will wear on tour with E.N.S.A. (British U.S.O.). Her favorite getup: a "Russian" costume (see cut) featuring a white satin tunic, black velvet trimming, a train...