Word: wiltedness
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Originally cast as Cigarette in Under Two Flags, she wilted under 16-hour-a-day shifts, began to carry a clinical thermometer around in her mouth, produce it showing readings of 105°. She was hospitalized, replaced by Claudette Colbert. Planned for her is a revival of Seventh Heaven.
Largely as a result of Mr. May's criticism, bolstered this week by RFChairman Jesse Jones in a letter to the Finance Com mittee. Administration insistence on the tax bill as written wilted. From the White House came word that the Finance Com mittee could revive the bill as...
Two rounds of diplomatic hopscotch with French Premier Pierre Laval and one round with Italian Premier Benito Musso- Mussolini?both of sturdiest peasant stock? profoundly wilted and discouraged last week fashionable young Captain Anthony Eden of the British Foreign Office who is fairly popping with blue blood.
The other airplane, sent especially from London to Prague last week, picked up at the Czechoslovak capital a handsome but sadly wilted young Englishman for whom the Empire has had high hopes. Two weeks of high pressure contacts with three dictators - Hitler, Stalin - and Pilsudski-had definitely proved too much...
The dancers met their greatest obstacles in Mexico City. Fleabites notwithstanding, they inaugurated the magnificent new Palacio de Bellas Artes. Because no one knew how to operate its elaborate lighting system, a "spot" had to be borrowed from a nearby cinema house. Later when the Company danced in the bull...