Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S [March 11] direct quotation of Mr. Wolcott Gibbs's opinion on the Maxwell Anderson-Truckline Café fracas seems a bit cavalier on the surface, since Mr. Gibbs's published New Yorker version is worded quite differently from TIME'S. Realizing, however that TIME had no chance for a gander at the forthcoming New Yorker review, I hazard the following free translation of the probable situation...
...closefisted policy squeezes every bit of profit out of industry in order that some segment of society may apparently be advantaged; the government being the sole judge of this, we will arrive at an economy with our industries nearly all nationalized without a vote of the people-an economic and social revolution of greater proportions than we now realize-one that American labor will rue as much as others...
Whether they liked it or not, London barflys were getting a bit of art with their "swipes" (weak, austerity beer). Four big London brewers, Barclay, Whitbread, Watney, and Courage had combined to make pub-crawling more cultural. In 1944 they commissioned some ?5,000 worth of drawings and watercolors. Last week an installment of the traveling Pub Art Show opened at The Bull in East Shean, in old times the first coaching station out of London to the southwest. Beamed brilliant, bibulous old portraitist Augustus John: "Artists have always supported the brewery industry. Now we are getting a little reciprocity...
Mercifully dispensing with all traces of plot, Director Vincente Minnelli gets started with a saccharine bit of professional whimsy purporting to show how the late Flo Ziegfeld is getting along in heaven. (Director Minnelli" thinks he is doing all right, puts Ziegfeld on the same cloud level as Shakespeare.) Once this pious bow to the Master has been made, Follies slips into high gear, runs through one unrelated vaudeville act after another. Among the best...
...original book-as loose, if not as active, a hussy as the notorious Fanny Hill. Sample dialogue from the book: "His naked body was darker than the linen sheet on which he rested. ... I bent over him and kissed him the way he had kissed me. . . . Suddenly his teeth bit into my flesh. I gave a little moan...