Word: whit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabeth Taylor is a great beauty. She is a perfect type of the Black Irish. She has heavy black hair and brows that are also black and thick, but not a whit too thick to frame her large, luxuriantly lashed blue eyes, which darken into violet in the least shadow. Her complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as "a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it." Cameramen have paid her Hollywood's ultimate compliment to beauty: "She doesn't have a bad angle...
Churchill preserved a dignified silence. Although more & more people felt that it was time for the West to establish some sort of clear-cut relationship with Franco Spain, the Caudillo's invective had won him no friends in Britain, and his coos had moved Washington not a whit. Said one madrileño last week: "We are alone, and always will be-until," he added hopefully, "something happens...
...Bunnies grabbed at their last chance, and doubles by whit Calkins and Fabe Bradbury drove in the fifth and last Leverett tally. Don Hare, of the Hutch, made the only other extra base bit of the game, a triple...
...unashamed reworking of a formula that has been familiar to Joan Crawford's fans for a couple of decades. The tired old plot is in no way improved by Joan's new hairdo, which is blonde and unbecoming. Sydney Greenstreet, with his lashless, inscrutable stare, is no whit different from what he has been in a dozen similar roles. As usual, he gets the dirtiest end of the dialogue. Sample, as Joan pulls a gun on him: "I should have spit you out the first time you lit between my teeth...
Leverett fields an undistinguished team. The Bunnies have one good pitcher, Dick Reynolds, who was on the mound when Leverett tied Eliot, 6 to 6. The outfield is pretty efficient with Brad Bradbury and Whit Calkins, a former Freshman pitcher who is also dangerous at the plate. Will Brown is the most only fair...