Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obtaining books, a few wilful men continue to act as if 1947 were 1938. The pipeline between publisher and student is slowly filling but, it still does not allow for complacency from those who decide what their student's reading will be for the following term. There just aren't enough books to go around in the unprecedented rush for the colleges. In many cases, the question is one of beating the other fellow to the publisher...
...satisfaction in the Friends' experiment in grassroots international relations. Said 18-year-old Gay Bauman of New York last week: "So many tourists . . . have acted so badly here that it is almost automatic for the Mexicans to view you coldly. They are beginning to know that all Americans aren...
...these days is historical drama, and the motion picture producers aren't forgetting it. Brushing aside any facts that might stand in their way the wily movie magnates have made of Dolly Madison something more than "mine gracious hostess" and daring rescuer of the portrait of George Washington. For, ensconced within the charming structure of Ginger Rogers, she is capable of tap-dancing, being psychoanalized and bewitching young men of good family. She does none of these, however, but there is an omnipresent suspicion that she might, at any moment, go into her routine...
...student playgoer and his companion aren't particularly anxious to see a third-hand version of a second-rate Broadway production in which the favorite college wit unsuccessfully attempts an imitation of Monty Wooley or Victor Moore. Nor are they cheered to the point of unharnessing two dollars to listen to a short-haired female with a ereased face speak several languages miserably in a baroque drama by a rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success...
Reported an eyewitness from the Big Four conference room: "Sometimes the boys waggle a finger at each other, but they aren't pounding any tables...