Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Utrecht, goldsmiths were fashioning another special award: a richly jeweled sword which Queen Wilhelmina will present to General Eisenhower. The Dutch newspaper Het Binnenhoj rhapsodized: "It will be a sword as worn by the kings of fairyland, and it is well earned...
...longest (134 minutes) horse opera ever made was finally being shown to the public. In Los Angeles, David 0. Selznick's Technicolored Duel in the Sun was running simultaneously in two theaters. Local reviewers found the extravaganza a titillating blend of wild oats and tame, well-worn plot, in which virtue emerged triumphant, but low-bodiced vice seemed to have all the fun. Nevertheless, the furor was up to Selznick's expectations-if not quite the kind of furor he had paid his advertising money...
...doomed love affair. Nothing more; but anyone could see that it was "well written," meaning that the writer had a pleased ear for U.S. speech; an effortless way of evoking familiar things "[the milkman's horse] casually shifted weight with a clink of steel shoes on the worn brick pavement of the street, and then heartily shook himself in his harness, perhaps to dislodge a fly far ahead of its season"; and the ability to spin out at his sardonic leisure a plot that became just sufficiently painful...
...glass for repeated toasts. Just before the banquet, Monty had been given a caracul cap to replace his famed black beret, and a long grey dress overcoat of a Soviet marshal-reportedly lined with $8,000 worth of sables-to replace the dramatic white sheepskin he had worn to Moscow...
Paradoxically, the prices of worn-out jalopies have stood up better than late models in some cities. Reason: buyers pick them up to get transportation while waiting for new cars...