Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Private messages from Hankow, where Chinese censors worked overtime on news dispatches, reported that Chinese statesmen of the Kuomintang or National People's Party who set up the Government over ten years ago (TIME, May 2, 1927, et ante) "now fear the common people of China more than they do the Japanese, and would compromise with Japan . . . but the Communists are firm for resistance." A censored Hankow dispatch quoted Kuomintang Central Political Council Chairman Wang Ching-wei as announcing: "In the event that the Communist Party at any time revives the Class Struggle, there will be danger...
Some spectators may have been amused by the WPA's sponsorship of a play exalting a Roman hero who spits on the common people. But none could deny that this drama of a patrician banished from Rome for not truckling to the plebs, and joining with his former enemies to wreck his own country, builds up in massive blocks of action. And none could deny that at least once-when the hero's mother comes to plead with him to spare his native Rome-the drama unfolds an intensely human scene...
...never visit the promoter's premises. To circumvent England's Betting & Lotteries Act, all transactions are on credit, cash is sent the following week. If an investor fails to follow up with cash, he is promptly put on the Confidential Black List which all promoters keep in common. One establishment, Littlewood's of Liverpool, has received so many pennies and pounds that it has grown from a backroom office to four huge buildings with 5,000 employes...
...Herndon's Lincoln is a document as essentially American as Whitman's poems, not only in its grasp of the tough frontier world in which Lincoln grew, but in its belief in U. S. democracy, its recognition of democracy's weaknesses, its sturdy faith in the common people...
...with a collection of brief sketches published last month, a young Manhattan reporter looked like the most promising candidate so far for Lardner's vacant post. His stories showed much of Lardner's tormented sympathy for voluble boneheads, a good deal of his ability to write common speech without making it grotesque, but less of Lardner's misanthropy or his flair for turning a street-corner conversation into a story of general significance...