Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before Errol Flynn's acquittal on charges of consorting with a minor, she quipped: "I hear you took a party of 14 to the Mocambo and couldn't get a table.") One of the few times she came out second was when Restaurateur Mike Romanoff ended an argument by kicking her in the foot...
...profits are so high that stockholders can hardly believe the figures on their dividend checks, it is difficult to imagine to what heights profits would soar if corporations were relieved of any substantial part of their tax "burden." In view of the present high level of national income the argument that industry needs the additional incentive that can be obtained by tax cuts appears more laughable than logical...
Bernard Shaw's treatment of the identical theme demonstrates Ibsen's inadequacy. Taking his semifaseist philosophy partially from the Norwegian playwright himself, Shaw builds an effective and convincing argument in "Heartbreak House" and other plays because his technique--his language, ideas, and situations--is bright and sharp enough to carry his doctrine. Ibsen bases his philosophic appeal on a situation that falls flat, on characters that are crude white and blackest black. The language--whether his fault or that of the translator--is so stilted, so drab that it tends to mire the play in a morass of monotony...
Other Republicans were more sympathetic to the foreign-aid program, but they reacted with resentment and suspicion to the priority which the President gave the price phase of his program. Any discussion of what to do about prices would inevitably stir up the old argument over who was to blame for the present high level of prices. Republicans said that businessmen would oppose any new controls. Said Michigan's Jesse Wolcott: "If he can lower prices without putting controls back on, he's a genius and we'll admit...
Twin delegations of the Debate Council split a double-billed argument with Yale last night, simultaneously taking a decision in New Haven and losing one in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. The topic of the discussion, which Harvard argued in the negative here and in the affirmative at Yale, was "Resolved, That President Truman should be reelected...