Word: refrains
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...Southern California Dental Association as the swellest in Hollywood. . . Warner Bros. insured the beard of Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came to Dinner) for $10,000. The insurance company's provisos : Woolley has to wear a fireproof silk beard snood, smoke through a noncombustible cigaret holder, refrain from smoking...
...China by contributing a theme song for United China Relief. Three of the Alley's top tunesters (Composer Arthur Schwartz, Lyricists Edward "Yip" Harburg and Ira Gershwin) wrote Honorable Moon in one evening and Radio Singer Connie Boswell launched the song on a national hookup last week. Refrain...
...bitter-mouthed woman who finally laughed in Ninotchka has been teaching her much-maligned feet a few things. So the refrain of the next big Garbo picture may be: "Garbo dances...
...statement: "If any further proof could conceivably be required of the real purposes and projects of the present leaders of Germany for world domination, it is now furnished by Hitler's treacherous attack upon Soviet Russia. ... To the leaders of the German Reich sworn engagements to refrain from hostile acts against other countries . . . are but a symbol of deceit. To the present German Government the very meaning of the word 'honor' is unknown...
...deal between Germany and Russia must be predicated on a meeting of minds between Hitler and Stalin. Hitler must estimate how much Stalin will concede and refrain from asking for much more. Stalin must estimate how much he can afford to concede and take a position from which he can comfortably withdraw. If either Hitler or Stalin miscalculates, the result may be war, though neither wants...