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...same language-if they can still talk." One Joe Forestieri, proprietor of a Bronx hash-house called the College Luncheonette, prepared to re-name it UNO Joe's. He explained carefully: "You could take it in two ways." Gate crashers schemed to get into UNO meetings with a vigor heretofore reserved for the World Series and heavyweight fights...
Then, at their closing session, UNRRA delegates got a shot of hope & vigor from their new Director General-bumptious, bell-bottomed Fiorello H. LaGuardia...
This time, the horses engendered no com plaint. At last there had been brought to the screen, with such sweetness, vigor, insight and beauty that it seemed to have been written yesterday, a play by the greatest dramatic poet who ever lived. It had never been done before.* For Laurence Olivier, 38 (who plays Henry and directed and produced the picture), the event meant new stature. For Shakespeare, it meant a new splendor in a new, vital medium. Exciting as was the artistic development of Laurence Olivier, last seen by U.S. cinemaddicts in films like Rebecca and Wuthering Heights...
...plunged into his new job with vigor. As his chief deputy in VA he moved in his old Twelfth Army Group deputy, Brigadier General Henry B. Lewis. With Hawley on the hospital end, they went to work, rebuilding the cumbersome, antiquated bureau, decentralizing the vast machinery...
...England 16 years ago. . . . Your country was a sort of museum piece, pleasant but small. You seemed slow, indifferent and exceedingly complacent. . . . I thought your streets narrow and mean, your tailors overadvertised, your climate unbearable, your class consciousness offensive. You couldn't cook. Your young men seemed without vigor or purpose. . . . But always, there was something that escaped me; always there remained . . . the suspicion that I might be wrong...