Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Approval is "a daring modern comedy" written by Frederick Lonsdale in 1927 and set "in grandmother's day." It has been adapted for the screen by Actor Clive Brook, who also produced it, directed it (beautifully), and plays the male lead in it (still better). The lighting is deliberately archaic; the sets and props are an elegant combination of the suffocatingly ratty and the nostalgically exact...
Shortage Reportage. In Kansas City, Mo., somebody broke into Ernie Mehl's auto, made off with a dog bone. In Brook lyn, N. Y., Daniel Tierney was haled into court for lambasting his wife with a beefsteak...
Last week, Philadelphia gallery-goers found the ranks of the Academy's 140th annual show suitably stiffened with such veterans of the U.S. Old Guard as John Sloan, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, Thomas Benton. They also found some of the most unacademic art now being done in the U.S. The Pennsylvania Academy itself shucked tradition by giving its coveted Temple Medal to an out-&-out esthetic experimentalist: 51-year-old Abraham Rattner, a Paris-trained New Yorker...
February. In Bound Brook, N.J., Barbara Jane Brilliant was engaged to Lieut. Saul "Sunshine. In Woodland, Calif., Mrs. John Snowball paid $5,500 for a house to Bartholomew Blizzard...
...democratic revolution. He had fought the war lords, he had fought the Communists, he had fought the Japanese. When it was no longer possible to hold against the Japanese, he had organized the retreat. In Chungking he had organized the resistance. By an act of inflexible will, which could brook no opposition because it must remain inflexible, the Generalissimo had held together China's battered, wasting strength. He knew there were abuses-there are always abuses. He knew there was incompetence-there is always incompetence. But reforms must wait until the more urgent purpose was achieved-victory, victory which...