Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...requested blank check for military assistance could make all Canada's military resources completely subject to Washington's orders. The cash-in-advance proposal would tie up Canada's scarce supply of U.S. dollars. The rule asking U.S. approval of arms exports was plainly impractical; almost every bit of arms and equipment that Canada manufactures has some U.S.-produced part...
...been talking to the singers about spending more time at the Met. Most of them, he said, including Tenors Jussi Bjoerling and Set Svanholm, Sopranos Astrid Varnay and Dorothy Kirsten, Contraltos Blanche Thebom and Risë Stevens, "have already agreed to work with me . . ." He promised to "make every effort to find the best artists among Americans." But, said he, "where I cannot find them, I will bring in Europeans." Since Edward Johnson's casting assistant, Frank St. Leger, had turned in his resignation, Rudi Bing would do most of the casting himself...
...your dreams . .. No confused, despondent lover ever saw a Chaplin picture who wasn't cheered up ... We knew that no girl would ever want him, and that emphasized the fact that some girl would or did want us . . ." Capp has improved on the old master: "I try to make a disappointed lover feel better by having Li'l Abner never know what to do about a succession of eager, luscious girls who throw their juicy selves at him ... Compared with Li'l Abner [the disappointed lover is] Don Juan. It makes him feel fine...
Healy had been more concerned with accuracy than with art. His likenesses were invariably "like" and a bit flattering besides. In photography's infancy that in itself was enough to make him a success. But only naw & then, as in his Sherman and Jackson, did Healy's brush go more than skin-deep...
...fourth Marquess of Bute. The Marquess' sole purpose in going into the tapestry business: to provide the kind of wall coverings he fancied for his own estates. To keep the company going in spite of death & taxes, the Marquess' descendants were now doing their best to make...