Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, more rioting had broken out in Johannesburg, where someone tossed a bomb into an Indian shop. In Durban, things had grown quiet enough for officials to have a look-around. Amid the bloodstained and ash-strewn debris, they put the cost at more than $1,000,000 worth of destroyed property, 1,000 injured and 300-odd killed. In all the misery brought on, however indirectly, by the grasping and oppressive hand of the master race, only one white man had died...
Even the scene in which Marwood, the villainess, swears on the Bible has traces of Eliot. The Bible turns out to be his "Ash Wednesday...
Beginning with Ash Wednesday (1930), Eliot left little room to doubt that the religious element was the most important to him, and that there was nothing temperate about his approach to this subject. He said: "If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin." His criticism of democracy was not aimed at its defects, but at its inadequacy, its incompleteness. Democracy without Christianity was not so much the opposite of the police state as it was its forerunner. "Liberalism can .prepare the way for that which...
Ward 8, Precinct 4: This takes care of the rest of the western side of the Square, extending as far as Ash st. The voting booths here are in the Unitarian Church, 3 Church...
...insight, but its real allegiance is to the footlights, with their richer-than-life diet of emotions. As Holt, indeed, Actor Morley sinks his teeth into the role as though it were an ear of corn dripping with butter-which, theatrically, it is. As Holt's wife, Actress Ash-croft-turning from a happy young mother into a blotchy old drunk-has a fat acting part too; but for brief seconds here & there, she is so good that she gives it the pinched look of tragedy...