Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures is his own. Even more than imagination, the paintings show enormous sympathy for the simple laborers, sure understanding of their lives and myths. The themes of the best of them are primitive, the colors strong. Last week, critics looked long and admiringly at Jagadores de Cartas (Card Players), a Cezanne theme done the South American...
...right to the same personal liberties as other respectable citizens. (Teachers like occasional card-playing, dancing, smoking, even a drink or two, and in many towns are not supposed...
...show, although there are several that slow it down a good deal. The film is weakened by the lack of connection between sequences; it is hard to jump from the snow covered forests of Czarist Russia to the swamp land of Louisiana with nothing more than a Valentine card in between to announce the transition. Only twice is the film worthy of the reputation of Walt Disney and of Disney's former achievements. "Casey at the Bat" features the voice of Jerry Colonna plus some very fine satire on rattling the pitcher and whipping the ball around the infield after...
Before the season opened, the 1946 Card trick looked like no trick at all. New Manager Eddie Dyer, up from the Cardinal farm chain, was two or three deep in talent at most positions, and had a grade-A pitching staff of 26. Somebody had to go to get the roster down to the June 15 30-player maximum. Boss Sam Breadon could not resist the $175,000 that the Giants offered for Catcher Walker Cooper. Infielder Emil Verban and Outfielder Johnny Hopp were sold to the Phillies and the Braves. Ace Pitchers Max Lanier (who had won his first...
...Quadragesimo Anno is the growing Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, founded in 1937 to promote good unionism among Catholic workers and good Catholicism among unionists. Individual priests, like Pittsburgh's rambunctious Father Charles Rice, have marched in picket lines and attacked the bosses as ardently as any card-holding Communist. But as to the general labor attitude of the working priesthood, there have been few reliable straws in the wind. Last week, trend spotters had one to chew...