Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yesterday, with nothing but the radio for company, and if you don't go nuts between 10 a.m. and sundown, you're tough enough to laugh off anything." Fortnight ago, Fred Allen, with his razor-strop smoothness, put on a savage parody (Clipso, the aristocrat of soap chips, presents Susan Spavin, Girl Sandhog). In Ottawa, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s general manager, W. E. Gladstone Murray, said he was going to work up a new "code of good taste" for afternoon programs...
...female embodiment of Christ on earth, lived and prophesied there with her seven handmaidens; she was determined that the land should become an American Canaan. A European fourflusher named Berezy made trouble with a deluded rabble he had brought with him from the gutters of Hamburg. The Maryland aristocrat Peregrine Fitzhugh freed his 40 slaves to found a settlement of free Africans. Simcoe, Governor of Canada, still had hopes of retrieving the country for his King. Only the Indians were really hopeless...
...version of The Star-Spangled Banner, published last week, bore those words on the cover. The words and music were by a sometime modernist ear-splitter, a onetime Russian aristocrat, Igor Stravinsky. At first toot, the author of the raucous thumps and blats of The Rite of Spring (played in Walt Disney's Fantasia) hardly seemed a likely rearranger for the national anthem. But the Stravinskian Star-Spangled Banner, despite its slight Russian accent, is a genuinely spacious and stirring piece. It should be welcomed by conductors who, under the ukase of Boss James Caesar Petrillo of the musicians...
Lanterns on the Levee ($3), by William Alexander Percy, a sensitive Southern aristocrat's assertion of stoic faith in the face of a world grown totally vulgar as well as totalitarian...
...Tribune also has built its circulation with some good editorial matter outside of news. Its features are of the best and among the most expensive: its comics, its color sections, its rotogravure, its serials, its columnists (notably the late humorist B.L.T.). For Colonel McCormick, although he considers himself an aristocrat, believes, up to a point, in giving the public what it wants...