Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...late King George V she said: "Ze Keeng-he ees tres gentil-zo zhentle, zo keeng." Of a shoe which was too small for even her No. 2 foot: ;'Eet ees no. I cannot enter." Pert and naive-looking with her big brown eyes, her childish face framed by a reddish pageboy bob, Lily Pons is to all appearances docile, even-tempered: she has all the French virtues, is genuinely kindly and cute comme un bou-ton-mais, zut alors, elle est shrewd, smart and has a will of iron. She has always worked hard, spends months preparing every...
...defense jobs face U. S. civilians: 1) production of arms, 2) production of trained men to make and service those arms. Last fortnight Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen told industrialists that the first job was lagging. Last week U. S. vocational teachers, gathered at a convention of the American Vocational Association in San Francisco, heard that the second job was going better...
...Anita, despite its rich purses, has not had the winter field to itself. Florida's Hialeah Park, with its $50,000 Widener Cup race, gets many of the East's best horses. This week, when Santa Anita opens its seventh season, for the first time it will face competition from a track in its own neck of the woods...
Summoning reporters, Plastic Surgeon I. Daniel Shorell (TIME, Aug. 12) announced in Manhattan: "The British press has made urgent inquiry from me within the last 24 hours as to whether I performed a face-lifting operation on the Duchess of Windsor. ... I wish categorically to deny that I performed such an operation in Miami. Furthermore, may I suggest that you of the press accept official announcements of the Duke and Duchess. I was absent from the city to operate on another prominent person-not the Duchess. Furthermore, I shall soon go to the Bahamas on a pleasure trip...
...They were swept downstream almost against their will, steering as cautiously as they could. They ploughed their profits back into debt retirement or new plant, drove good bargains with the Government in answer to its demands for industrial expansion. When the boom ends, this caution may help Business to face a buyer's market with efficient plant, low overhead-may ease post-war adjustments. But the engine of industry did not speed up because of confidence burning within. It was sped up from without by the energy of wartime economy. Not moneymen but politicos had started it, and supplied...