Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around his daughter and handed her the diploma. Mary Margaret seemed a little flustered. But she turned, smiled again and kissed his cheek before she walked offstage. Her father's grin broadened at the solid applause which followed her and he looked up happily at the presidential box where aunts, uncles and cousins were sitting with Bess Truman...
...grain was there. How fast could it be moved? Actual shipments of wheat abroad still lagged behind U.S. promises (see box). Only a month remained to make good, and neither the rail strike nor the threatened shipping strike improved the slim chances of beating the deadline...
...tall, tired-looking Photographer Frederick Giese had been covering courts for eleven years. He had stuck his head into Judge Joseph Sabath's court about a zillion times. What had he seen? Well, brother, he'd never seen no Gypsy Rose Lee dancing in the jury box. Just jerks he had to photograph. But since it was his life work he looked in again one day last week. Nope. The joint looked haunted. Nobody inside but a black-haired young guy, a blonde dame, and a lot of empty seats...
...program over Morgantown's station WAJR. The Smiths established a 3,500-volume library in the Shack (Mrs. Roosevelt and the late President sent some books). Scotts Run small fry and bobby-soxers use the Shack for archery, croquet, ping-pong, dances ("We've got a juke box," boasts Smith, "and we're not ashamed to admit it."). Of the Shack's pool table he says: "It puts us one up on the nearest beer hall." Smith's explanation of his work: "When Christ was on earth He made the blind to see, the lame...
Earnestness got a hearing during 1945-46, but not much of a hand. Only one new serious play, Deep Are the Roots, really clicked. When Broadway looked back (not too searchingly) at the war, it found that nowhere was the war so dead as at the box office. When Broadway looked at the disturbing in U.S. life, it showed more social conscience than skill. But a social conscience was alive in the theater, and even slick comedy smashes like Born Yesterday and the Pulitzer-Prizewinning State of the Union took pot shots at political and social targets...