Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bricks & Tricks. Art French, 49 (called Happy because he never looks it), had been shooting oversized hollyhocks, chasing fires and persuading divorcees to pull up their skirts for the camera for 23 years. He never did get much schooling, and was famed for malaprops: he always said "polo bears" and...
Place a Bet. The wellspring of American capitalism, Johnston argued, is the American fondness for taking chances. "The human element in the capitalistic system is the recognition of man's innate urge to take chances, to be respected, to be recognized, to be a man and not a number...
Another active politician was Harold Clayton Urey, Nobel Prizewinner and discoverer of heavy water. From headquarters in Chicago, he made lobbying forays to Washington, delivered speeches, organized U.S. scientists. Said he: "Men are going where they can work with less heckling, where they don't have to go through...
¶ Basil Wright's extraordinarily beautiful Song of Ceylon, made for a British tea association. The film bears about the same relation to ordinary travelogues that Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn bears to a cheap pottery catalogue.
"Martin Luther, a gigantic incarnation of the German spirit, was exceptionally musical. I frankly confess that I do not love him. ... He was a liberating hero-but in the German style, for he knew nothing of liberty. I am not speaking now of the liberty of the Christian but of...