Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chancel was robust, 83-year-old Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody,* Groton School headmaster, who has given diplomas to Franklin Roosevelt and his sons, the sons and grandsons of Theodore Roosevelt and 1,400 other high-bred U. S. youths. The President's proud face was humble, his head bent, as old Dr. Peabody intoned a prayer: "We make our humble supplications unto Thee for this Thy servant Franklin, upon whom is laid the responsibility for the guidance of this Nation...
...Little Foxes" is the best play this reviewer has seen not only in this but in many seasons. Yet it is a play based completely on the evil in human nature, a story of degeneration in a Southern family bent only on money and the power it brings. Like those who have slammed the covers of Baudclaire, many will claim that a play can not be great and still disgust by its ugliness. Its attraction is the attraction of evil. Its entertainment is that of waiting and hoping for good. And therein is the great artistry of Miss Hellman...
...Child Study Association of America feels that his occasional rocket & space ship jaunts are a bit too improbable. By radio's own war rules, he must remain neutral, may mix in no international intrigues, rub out no Hitlers. So last week Superman cleaned up a local mob bent on wrecking the Silver Clipper, a streamliner train; caught them after a quick repair job near Denver, heaving 20 tons of rock off a trestle and replacing missing rails in a jiffy...
...such "proof" is only a starter for de Madariaga's deductive pièce de resistance. Now he traces Colon's Jewish origin in his character-in his Messianic bent; in his preoccupation with human "contracts"; in his studious avoidance of editorial judgment on the expulsion of the Jews at a time when such sentiments were as conventional as Heil! in Nazi Germany; in his fascination with gold and jewels (rather more esthetic and symbolic than mercenary...
...Since then businessmen and politicos have played volleyball with rumors about how SEC would handle Presidential-Prospect Willkie's application. Last week, criticizing Commonwealth & Southern for dilatory filing of its intentions and for pressure tactics, SEC handed down a decision which neatly forestalled accusations that it was bent on handcuffing business enterprise...