Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lovely is not a word that comes often or naturally to the lips of Kansas Citians themselves. They are aware of their slums and stockyards as well as of their elm-shaded streets and comfortable homes. The city is self-conscious about its culture and somewhat nostalgic about its hell-raising past, and looks down its nose at drab Kansas City, Kansas "across the viaduct." Only 225 miles from the geographical center of the U.S., it has the drive of the East, the traditions of the South (e.g., separate schools for Negroes), and the friendliness and vigor of the West...
...cluttered desk in the cluttered expanse of the Star's city room, Roberts got General Eisenhower on the telephone in Washington. How did Ike feel about it now? Would he take a Democratic nomination? Roberts grinned around his cigar as the wire crackled with a string of cuss words. The General was angry. Hadn't he given his word? What kind of a fellow did they think...
...ever seen a Hollywood movie. But he knows from reports, he says, that they are loaded with "sex, drunkenness and crime ... a hindrance to the Kingdom of God." A cigar-smoker and a bowler, Haan denies that his people are narrow. "We are as broadminded as the Word of God allows us to be. . . . [But] we don't want movie actors and actresses to be the educators of our children...
...himself, and the strongest indication is that Harlow will go to Columbia because of his great friendship for Lou Little. With his former assistants Margarita and Jacunski at Yale, this presence at Columbia would mean that at least two of Art Valpey's '48 rivals would have the inside word on Crimson personnel...
Beautiful is the single word which most nearly describes all aspects of the picture. Beauty pervades the exterior and interior scenes. Beauty of sound is in the speech. Beauty in a peculiar sense characterizes the simple story. La Belle is beauty herself. Of course, is appearance and character...