Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Social Liberalism with Economic Reaction. It has sought to advance its social liberalism through economic policies which, historically and in their current effect on American enterprise, are profoundly reactionary. In defining certain central policies of the New Deal as reactionary, this Committee is neither juggling words nor attempting to coin an artificial campaign slogan. The record speaks for itself...
...With the One Coin for Fee two aging women, girlhood friends, meet after many years as 1938's New England hurricane blows up. One is at the end of a sexually avid and shameless career; the other is a spinster who jealously despises her. They die in the hurricane, reconciled...
...disappear from the hand of a small native girl. She let out a piercing scream, her arm became completely stiff, and the natives grew menacing. "She knows the money is inside her arm," grunted the native chief. "Makes her sick." Conjurer Garner hastily improvised a new trick: extracted the coin from the flesh of her arm and all was well...
Juno and the Paycock (by Sean O'Casey; produced by Edward Choate & Arthur Shields in association with Robert Edmond Jones). Flung on the Broadway pavement many times since it was minted in Dublin in 1924, Juno and the Paycock still rings out like a silver coin. Whatever its faults, there is nothing pinched or paltry about it. Its stagecraft is clumsy at times and its plot too theatrical, but its background is richly Irish and its two middle-aged title characters-sturdy, ill-used, valiant-hearted Juno and her strutting, shiftless, drunken Paycock of a husband-are abundantly alive...
Sirs: If the Washington correspondents cannot coin a name for the '30s perhaps TIME readers can do so. As one, I submit Hangovera as a suitable title for that period following the Torrid Twenties Jamboree. Bitter tongues and family quarrels; sour medicines and the doctor's bill;-a morning after if there ever was one, complete with Pink Elephants...