Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...incident you questioned was the one item in my book which I had accepted, without further checking, from a story in TIME, the weekly newsmagazine. It appeared in the issue of March 10, 1952 (p. 25). Was there a more responsible source...
...casually requested 250 "chaste teen-agers," she soon had a string of buses rolling toward Manhattan from a Catholic girls' school in Trenton, NJ. "I want a dozen brunettes," said Kazan another time. "And I want each one of them to be so luscious that without saying a word, you just know that . . ." She was also ready with blondes when Kazan changed his mind...
...property owners to buy up the certificates at the going price, turn them into the companies at $100 face value as down payments on defaulted property. The syndicate members made handsome profits when the real estate market recovered; the companies got rid of defaulted property and reclaimed their certificates without having to give up cash; Galbreath pocketed a 5% commission on every sale...
...publishing hands insist, was hatched by Victor Weybright of the New American Library and reads like the hack job it is. Rona Jaffe's soap-slick The Best of Everything was written to the specifications of Film Producer Jerry Wald. It is possible to write a non-novel without any lightning from Olympus; Henry Morton Robinson accomplished it this year with Water of Life, a book he thought up all by himself as a cynical imitation of Taylor Caldwell. Author Jaffe, on the other hand, has taken a step forward; her new novel, Away from Home (Simon & Schuster...
...until a thread of rewarding sense emerges from the gabble. In this respect, he is unlike the typical Chaplin figure, whose weapon was silence, but like Chaplin's little fellow, he is a reincarnation of the classic non-hero of Jewish folklore-Peter Schlemiel, the man without a shadow, who is the fated enemy of authority, whether commissar or cop. priest or rabbi, and whose talent it is to make a wheezy accordion of all top hats...