Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation of sabbath-keepers who do not go to church . . . We get free spectacles and false teeth and, for lack of hospital beds, may die in a ditch. We have probably the best children and the dullest adults in Europe. We are a Socialist-Monarchy that is really the last monument of liberalism." Speaking in Faversham, Kent, Tory Robert Boothby posed an earthier dilemma. To him, the proposed reduction of food imports seemed "a pretty prospect -an endless vista of free false teeth with nothing to bite...
Earthy Novelist Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell flew back from a two month junket on which he tried to use up some of his frozen royalties in twelve European countries. He liked Italy best, but thought the natives were getting fed up with U.S. visitors. Reported Caldwell: Rome is so overrun with the Hollywood crowd that street peddlers who sidle up to tourists with furtive propositions no longer peddle postcards or addresses. Now they whisper: "I've got a script...
...France, patriots put up two monuments to General George S. Patton, and movie-goers elected Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peclc as the best foreign screen performers...
...Finally," Joad concludes, "such a course has been known to give men a serenity of outlook. It may not in our present age be the best dividend-payer from the purely utilitarian standpoint, but this at least may be said of it, that it sometimes enables men to despise the wealth that it prevents them from acquiring...
...this system, $10,000 invested in M.I.T. grew to $21,904 through capital gains and income in the ten years, though increasing in value less than the New York Stock Exchange's average of all listed stocks. In Keystone's best-performing stock fund, the investment grew to $22,875. I-1 dividends alone, Keystone's "52" stock fund led with an 8.8% return, followed by M.I.T. with...