Word: overnight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week the animated dredge is digging harder than at any time since 1927, when soundtracks shattered the silent movies and Hollywood had to line up a whole new team of movie stars overnight. Every day the maw takes a bite or two of common clay, lugs it off to Hollywood's casting mills. There it is sifted for the sapphires that men sometimes find in common clay...
...main props of Juan Perón's popularity has been his policy of holding retail food prices at artificially low levels. Last week the prop was unceremoniously yanked away. Argentines awoke to find the costs of basic foodstuffs up as much as 100% overnight...
...16th Century dandy's), or their ends were wrapped around a smart walking cane or twined in & out of the waist belt. At night, of course, the beard could serve as an extra blanket or could be screwed into a portable press for an overnight permanent. In short, as bearded Burl Ives remarks on the jacket of Beards: "Every man should try one. They grow...
Christ & Picasso. The show centered on nine paintings of the Crucifixion, done in oils on thin paper. Rose had long been regarded as a decorative, eclectic artist with a low emotional octane rating: overnight his new pictures established him as a force in British painting. Said London's Art News & Review: "This remarkable series of paintings is not romantic or expressionist, as are most Crucifixions, but may rather be described as liturgical, ritualistic, learned and arcane . . . executed with great resource and command of the medium." Describing Rose as "an artist who believes in both Christ and Picasso," the Catholic...
...exotic frills in his usual dapper stride. He seems happy puttering about among his orchids and potted petunias until the government sends him off on a mission. His job: to ferret out the where and how of a counterfeit operation so gigantic that it threatens the national economy. Practically overnight, Raft latches on to the right blonde (Nina Foch), who leads him to the right tropical island, where he meets the Master Mind (George Macready), an underworld exquisite with a passion for fine music and archery. Macready, even with his handsome quiver of arrows, is no match for Raft...