Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dapper, scholarly Harold MacMillan, sent out from Tory headquarters to play the provincial circuit, adopted a cautious politician's line. He told disgruntled Tories that their best hope for a return to power was not to commit themselves to a program but to widen the party's field "and bring in all who want free progress." "Like the parson who was against sin." he said, "I am against Socialism. . . . The great conflict to come will be fundamentally a conflict between God and the anti-Christ." His audiences applauded the generalities, but were not satisfied...
...bonfires, picnics, fancy diving and moonlit romances than ever before. The kissing in canoes, front-porch swings, automobiles, motorboats and tree-shaded lanes had already used up lipstick by the bucket. Baseball was wonderful again and dance bands were improving-grandstands and pavilions were crowded. Summer stock and borsch circuit vaudeville were splashed with big names. If the fishing was not the best in history, a million mosquito-bitten men would never admit...
Meanwhile pipemen fought into the flaming lobby with battering streams of water. They edged into the heart of the fire, heads down, coughing, while other firemen in the rear sent protective streams cascading over them. The fire-apparently started by a short circuit in a false ceiling above the Silver Lounge-died) almost as abruptly as it began. In half an hour the blackened, sodden lobby was free of flame...
Then it tackled the subject of a free press. It ruled that the Miami Herald was not in contempt of court when it attacked and lampooned the Dade County Circuit Court for ducking the prosecution of county criminals. Wrote Justice Murphy: "The freedom of the press includes the right to criticize and discourage, even though the terms be vitriolic, scurrilous or erroneous...
...Great Books" had long ago scored a smash hit before the undergrads on the University of Chicago's Midway 'TIME, Oct. 24,1938). Last week it was on he road, to play to adults, on a four-city circuit. Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins expects the idea to spread, within five years, to 150,000 people in 36 cities...