Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sets start turning more and more to ASCAP-contracted independent stations, and advertisers follow the trend, the networks will have to throw in the towel. But if the combination of new BMI, old American, and foreign tunes suits listeners' tastes, the Society of Composers will find itself in an awkward position. Whatever the battle's outcome, American music should emerge with a new lease on life...
...infantrymen will be to reduce hours spent in antiquated close-order drill, increase the days devoted to field maneuver. Smart boys will catch on in two or three weeks; chuckleheads who look to left of trees after month's end will be demoted to the awkward squad...
Ernest W. McFarland of Florence, Ariz., who beat Polysyllababbler Henry Fountain Ashurst to the Democratic nomination, is 45, ruddy, big-fisted, almost 6 ft., 180 lb., sober of habit, awkward but sincere in oratory. A county judge, he drawls, rides well, owns several farms and believes Communists should not vote...
...large or small, is democratic. . . . But if . . . [it] is greedy, if it is suspicious of everything without and credulous of everything with in . . . turns to force to hold its place and win its way, then that social order . . . must turn to a tyrant for its hero and leader." Democracy, "awkward, sluggish, often sadly wasteful," nevertheless gives the freest play to the "common kindly impulse of organized humanity," but it will only survive if the democratically trained citizen - "naturally a bit lazy, instinctively inclined to improvidence, by birthright glad to let well enough alone" - decides in his heart that the democratic...
...right little, tight little parishes of England last week, devout Anglican Church folk again buzzed about the Duke of Windsor. Curates placed the tips of their fingers together and cast up their eyebrows. It will certainly be awkward, they opined, for the Bishop of Nassau, Dr. John Dauglish, to have to decide whether Communion may be administered to His Royal Highness, the new Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas, or must be withheld as it normally would be from the husband of a divorcee. In London the Daily Express of Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaverbrook, who was strongly...