Word: length
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberty Square in the heart of Budapest is a huge map of the old Kingdom of Hungary, done in shrubbery, with a Danube of blue flowers winding through its length. It shows, besides the Hungary of the Treaty of Trianon, all the provinces taken away by that treaty: Slovakia and Ruthenia, ceded to Czecho-Slovakia; Croatia, ceded to Yugoslavia; the Banat, ceded to Yugoslavia and Rumania; and the broad plateau of Transylvania, which Rumania also took. Around the map is a border of flowers spelling out in Hungarian...
This bit of fluff was Zanuck's choice for Shirley Temple's 22nd feature-length film and final picture for Fox, where she was the nation's No. 1 box-office attraction for four years, an Oscar winner, the corporation's biggest single asset. The opening scenes of Young People, covering her progress from waif to world wonder, permit two shots from her earlier films when her wobbly dancing warmed the hearts of millions. Now & then she rasps out such reminiscent ditties as Young People...
Most people who know that George Sand (real name: Amantine Lucile Aurore Dudevant, nee Dupin) was a French novelist have seldom read one of her novels all the way through. This week appeared a full-length life of Authoress Sand...
Stone was fetchingly clad in one of the boxy-looking, fuzzy teddy-bear cloth, finger-tip length jackets which simply everyone is wearing this autumn, with softly shirred shoulders, woven hairline stripes and a parade of novelty buttons from the becoming V neckline to the jaunty angle...
...nothing do the portraits of John Buchan bear a slight resemblance to those of Calvin Coolidge. His native taciturnity reinforced by a diplomat's decision to write "at length only of the dead," Autobiographer Buchan was evidently not writing for posthumous publication. Of the mental climate in which he grew up, the architecture of his life and his world, he writes warmly and well. Of himself, he tells as little as an autobiographer decently...