Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Look, Old Hat. The flood of such pictures in magazines and newspapers was strategically timed. It would coincide with the climax of the American woman's familiar rite, already well under way last week -the annual surrender to the fall fashions...
...Well," said Lisa with resignation, "it's a leettle difficult when one has never been chez Maxime, but I think the feeling will come." The feeling came with the addition of some falsies.* There were crises over shoes (wrong ankle straps) and gloves (too shiny) and the necklace (too large). But presently the massed lights went on, all shadows withering in the merciless crossplay. (Many models are less than brilliant conversationalists. Says Lisa, an excellent one: "Sometimes I think all these hot lights numb the brain...
Greenfield went broke, but he seemed to get along just as well without money. He stayed on as chairman of his most potent company, Bankers Securities Corp., and came back fast. Through Securities Corp. he moved into control of City Stores, Loft Candy Corp., New York's Hearn Department Stores, Inc. retail chain, and a big minority interest in Walter Hoving's Hoving Corp. (Bonwit Teller, John David, Anson-Jones). Still one of the biggest U.S. real-estate operators and hotel owners, he was the prime mover in luring the 1948 Republican and Democratic conventions to Philadelphia...
...European movie, it takes an arty, patronizing view of the lower classes. Its argument is that every peasant is a darlin' in wolf's clothing, quaint by virtue of his avarice, hypocrisy and superstition. This reworking of a sentimental notion turns up nothing new except some well-oiled character acting...
...looks as if matters may well get worse as Author Feikema is more thoroughly cribbed and confined. At the end of The Primitive, Thurs headed East. Part Two will find him and Author Feikema in the toils of the city slickers, 700 miles farther from home...