Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embittered days Tories and Socialists had been trading blows over Labor's four-line bill to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act. The four lines packed more political dynamite than a buzz bomb. Britain's first and only general strike in 1926, the nearest it had come to violent revolution in a century (and it was not very close), had shocked the easygoing Baldwin Government into banning political strikes. For all Labor, and especially for a bellicose trades unionist named Bevin, the Act was a standing insult...
Cheers & Jeers. Ernie landed a haymaker. "If ever there was a class act, it was this one." The rafters rang with Labor cheers. Bevin's jowls quivered with anger and excitement. Ignoring the Speaker, he yelled at Tories across the aisle: "You deliberately endeavored to destroy the economic and political power of the working man. You would do it again if you had the chance...
Sublime Music. To the press Stokie muttered, "boycott." Then he scurried to Cuba's bewildered President Ramon Grau San Martin, who assigned his secretary to act as mediator. Barked Stokowski: "The man has not yet been born who can dictate...
...Commodity Credit Corp., which last year held more than half of the U.S. carryover by virtue of its loans to cotton farmers under the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the Bankhead Amendment (and which thus keeps cotton off the market to keep the price up), has done most of the exporting for the U.S. since war's end. It has found cotton so hard to sell that it is now arranging to ship some 1,000,000 bales to Germany and Japan to get their spindles going again. But CCC kept mum on the price, gave no hint of when...
...warlike antics and vocabulary, and upon some mild byplay involving William Eythe and Joan Bennett as newspaper reporters. The local color possibilities were enormous, but the producer and director of this picture evidently didn't think them worth the trouble. Most of the characters talk and act like damyankees; the scenery is strictly studio-lot Georgian; there are apparently not more than a couple of bottles of Coca-Cola in the entire town. It is all so little like an actual Georgia locale that Rome, Athens, La Grange, and points south needn't give it a second thought...