Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept insisting, that he was not the same old boy. "Bossy" Gillis still looked as seedy as Burpee's spring catalogue, and he fitted into the gentle, museum-piece decor of old Newburyport, Mass, like a prime bull at a vegetarians' convention. But the coming of middle age, a wife and a new black bowler had smoothed some of Bossy's sharp edges...
...bureaucratic controls, gasoline rationing and high prices, creeping nationalization, hamstringing restrictions on private enterprise. Through the campaign Labor fought with feeble punches: Government orators warned that only Labor could maintain full employment; Labor propaganda included a "ticket" bearing a crossed pick & shovel and the slogan, "Express to the Golden Age." But Australia had been riding the express for eight years, had found no golden age, eaten no pie from...
Menzies promised to stop bureaucratic highhandedness, also promised to outlaw the weak Australian Communist Party. The Dominion social welfare program (old-age pensions since 1909, maternity benefits since 1912) was not a campaign issue. Menzies will retain it in full...
...moviegoer above the age of twelve should fail to spot the victor from the first reel, but both suitors are written and played ingratiatingly enough to make it seem a contest worth watching. Miss Leigh also performs sympathetically in a variety of improbable situations. With the notable exceptions of the heroine's upholstered sweater and the calculated cuteness of a seven-year-old child actor (Gordon Gebert), Scripter Isobel Lennart and Producer-Director Don Hartman have managed to hide most of the comedy's implausibilities in a mellow blur of unpretentious good humor...
Community singing of Christmas carols will conclude the festivities. According to party chairman Ernest T. Berkely '53, the reading of Dickens' work will re-establish a Christmas tradition begun many years age by Charles T Coneland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emertius...