Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Symbol of America...
...great strike between the forces of management and labor of the steel industry is more than a present threat to the welfare of the U.S. It is a vivid symbol of what America has come to treasure most and fight for the hardest: material security and monetary wealth...
...celebrities as his friend the master swindler Serge Rubinstein, and some of Mickey Jelke's choicer, $100-a-night call girls. "I always took a big interest in the volunteer fire department in New Hope," said Old Fire Buff Birrell. "Volunteer firemen are a great thing in rural America." He also liked the autumn hunting. But "my house and nine-acre farm are in litigation now. They took it from me; nobody will get anything except the lawyers...
There is no doubt that Mark Twain built his reputation in America on the popular conception that he was a very funny man. After his famous "Jumping Frog" story, he was "made." But humor is not the only trade mark of Twain. A genuine and deep bitterness, sometimes strung out in novel-sized (often two volume novel-sized) indictments of the human race, is equally characteristic...
...show is funny. But the humorous part of the program could be funnier, and truer to Twain if some of the cuttings were better. If Twain is "America's funniest humorist," as all the advertisements say, and even if he isn't--much of his charm rests on an especially endowed talent for spinning the old Western tall tale. Sometimes the story-teller, without cracking a smile, is able to convince his victim that his whole tale is gospel truth and is able to use this tale for all sorts of devious ends. But the comic aspect lies chiefly...