Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...earn the U.S. their pity. Headlong, all-out war would earn their everlasting hatred. They are waiting for U.S. decisions which ring with steadfast courage and calculations for final victory. In short, the U.S. must demonstrate that it knows what it's about before it can establish a solid prestige. And once it establishes that faith by its actions in Asia, there is a good chance that Europe can really be rearmed and defended...
...CRIMSON therefore, herewith prints its second group of specially selected gifts. These articles have been chosen for both their unique quality and solid practical value. A variety of tastes has gone into the several choices and they are included with the hope that their presence on this page may save the potential shopper from the many hard hours usually devoted to knocking people over in crowded stores...
Filling. Since those days, except for one brief (1939-40) episode when he had his own Ragtime Band and made some famous collector's items for the Bluebird label, Muggsy has been passing most of his working time as an unspectacular, if solid, fixture in Chicago and Manhattan jazz joints. Now, at 44, and playing as well as ever, he had suddenly become one of the rages of the West Coast. With his new handpicked, six-piece combo, Muggsy filled San Francisco's Hangover Club last month, is doing equally well at Tiffany...
Jimmy Durante proved last week that the success of his first TV show was no accident. Returning for the second of his monthly appearances on Four Star Revue (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC-TV), he again effortlessly balanced 60 minutes of solid fun on his expressive shoulders and never once hobbled the load...
...Suffolk, he has not forgotten his working-class origins. Londoners like best his stock characters, such as cockneys, hard-boiled moppets (one proudly reported that he had not only spotted spring's first cuckoo, but shot it with his air rifle) and the Giles "family." This includes beefy, solid Dad and Mum, a scrawny pig-tailed schoolgirl, two older homely sisters, a horrid, runty little boy and stumpy, grumpy Grandma who smells of camphorated oil and dotes on "bulls' eyes" (a peppermint candy...