Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peggy Wood, who must have delighted theatergoers of yesteryear in "Naughty Marietta" and "Bittersweet," is still very delightful to watch, both for her graceful beauty and her thorough characterization of the well-meaning, suspicious mother-in-law who almost wreeks her daughter's marriage. As her sister-in-law and complete opposite, June Walker is bouncy and very funny. The kind of woman who was once called "ente as a bug's car," she is now pudgy and painted, given to wearing fluffy mules around the house because of "foot trouble" but who nevertheless takes samba lessons. Most...
...lasting friendships with three or four families and always sit with their children. This has the advantage of forming "uncle" relationships with countless moppets and of knowing, where in the house the toys are kept in case of a crisis. The fact that it also leads to a more thorough knowledge of the inside of the icebox is frowned upon by Holt who finds other jobs for such miscreants...
...isolated camp in northern Queensland, Australia, Geologist J. G. Hathaway probably qualifies as TIME'S most thorough reader. He writes : "I read every flamin' word: news, ads, picture credits, even the masthead (I see Marshall Smith got a promotion). I even count the type faces used...
Last week, the Navy's Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, Md. announced that it had given No. 311 as thorough and exhaustive a going-over as any pig ever had. Now grown to a hulking 600-pounder, she will live out her days at Washington's National Zoological Park. Then the Navy medics want the carcass for an autopsy, just in case they have missed something. Pig No. 311 appears to be normal in every way except one: she is sterile. Was this the A-bomb's fault? Said a Navy spokesman cagily: ". . . Not necessarily . . . Ordinarily, enough...
Eliot and Mrs. Brine's motive in being with Rivera was, of course, to get to know him and his work at first hand. In the process they underwent a thorough lecture course on mural painting and on pre-Cortesian sculpture. Rivera showed them hundreds of his sculptures, one by one, and stood for hours on end while he explained his archaeological theories. He also accompanied them on a trip to see his murals. After a long, silent examination of one of them Rivera turned and said: "I haven't seen this mural since I painted...