Word: brooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like Tennyson's brook, Senator Charles Linza McNary seems to go on forever. Republican McNary went from Oregon to the Senate, at 43, in World War I: he is still there, at 67, in World War II. This year up popped a brash Republican to take a crack at Invincible Charlie. Squat, bespectacled Attorney Arthur M. Geary is no glamor boy, is considered a nuisance by most Oregon G.O.P. leaders. But he slung out a slogan that no one could ignore: "MacArthur v. McNaryism...
...Manuel Komroff's In the Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...
Richard Barthelmess' daughter, Mary, Leopold Stokowski's daughter, Sonya, Clive Brook's daughter, Faith, Producer Dwight Deere Wiman's daughter, Nancy, Writer Stephen Morehouse Avery's daughter, Phyllis, all played schoolgirl roles in a new Broadway show, Letters to Lucerne (see p. 47), and proved the brightest spot...
...Stalin against the Christian creed. In suppose Russians are being told that the people of the United States love communism because communists had a chance to talk over here. And now comes the best one of all. The other day in a shortwave broadcast from London, Lord Beaver-brook informed the world, that everybody was wrong about Stalin--that the old boy is one of the best dressed men he ever saw and, to top it all off, has a marvelous sense of humor. The propaganda given the American public in the last war is finding its equal in this...
...weeks the whole U.S. rubber industry faced the possibility of a shutdown as the result of a strike of A.F. of L. workers at the Calco Chemical Division of American Cyanimid Co., Bound Brook, N.J. Reason: the plant produces aniline oil, an accelerator for curing rubber. Management and employes, at the appeal of the National Defense Mediation Board, signed a truce, agreed to keep working while demands for a closed shop and 10?-an-hour rise were negotiated...