Word: whole
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Matyas Rakosi, nonalingual secretary general of the Hungarian Communist Party, a commissar in the bloody and shortlived Communist dictatorship of Bela Kun in 1919. He served as a wartime contributor to Pravda, often complains that he "spent the whole of [his] youth in prison," where, he says, he learned patience by reading the Saturday Evening Post...
...growing number of jewelry robberies. One of the most sensational hauls was in October 1946, when thieves entered Ednam Lodge at nearby Sunningdale, where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were staying, got away with $80,000 of the duchess' jewelry. Since then there had been a whole series of jewel burglaries in Sunningdale and nearby towns...
...arms of a big, bewildered girl in a rented mink coat. As they watched, Noel Coward and his old friend Producer John C. Wilson suddenly and shamelessly burst into tears. "We just couldn't help it," explained Wilson later. "There on a platter before us was the whole essence of show business...
...show business, proclaiming the ascension of a star named Carol Channing. On Broadway, an authentic new star is almost as rare a phenomenon as it is in the heavens. Perhaps once in a decade a nova explodes above the Great White Way with enough brilliance to reillumine the whole gaudy legend of show business. In 1938 an impish little brunette named Mary Martin took New York by storm one night when she sang a song called My Heart Belongs to Daddy. In 1930 Ethel Merman stood in front of the footlights in Manhattan's Alvin Theater, bellowed Gershwin...
From that point on, the joke is obvious. Here is no seal clumsily tooting a trumpet and waving a flag in a sawdust ring, but a seal suddenly released into a tank of water -lithe, graceful, confident and effortless. Subtly and with never a false move, Carol's whole expressive body flows with the rhythm of the music. As she sings, every motive in Lorelei's predacious little soul becomes hilariously clear. At the end of her first chorus, both Carol and Lorelei Lee belong to the audience forever. What Author Loos wrote between the lines and accented...