Word: conned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosaic, reasonable book about Poet John Dryden* provoked the New York Post's Reviewer Sterling North, who has been similarly provoked before, to a brisk whirl of Drydenesque heroic couplets. In 32 rough (but sometimes very ready) didactic verses, he reproduced a spat between "Seraph Pro" and "Archangel Con," before a Heavenly Critics' jury for the Book of the Aeon Club...
...Hollywood-manufactured sequel to See Here, Private Hargrove, but it happens to be funnier than the original. The war, as it was fought by eager, incompetent Corporal Hargrove (Robert Walker) and cynical con-man Private Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), bears only a casual scenic resemblance to real war. The France they trudge through is a mythical landscape. But Hargrove and Mulvehill seem far more real than many of the screen's dead-earnest soldier heroes...
Said he: "I find it difficult to speak to you . . . since I've never been able to figure out your purpose as an organization. ... I can't remember a single thing you've been for [or] a single con tribution the organization itself has made or a single constructive thing it's done. . . . The N.A.M. has such a bad name . . . that even when it's right about some thing it can't draw public support to it. Even when a man gets mad at the unions he doesn't side with N.A.M...
...born Rene FtilSp-Miller, a onetime hermit on Mt. Athos who has written biographies of Pope Leo XIII, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Lenin and Gandhi, sees Physicist Millikan 's attitude as part of "a new 'renaissance,' which is about to bring back man's appreciation of the con structive wisdom and beauty of faith." To contribute to that renaissance, Author FtilSp-Miller has selected five saints (of the 25,000 generally recognized by Roman Catholics) and made their five lives into a book, The Saints That Moved the World (Crowell...
...they feel moral guilt for the atrocities committed by their armies? A. Unquestionably, yes. These things genuinely shock them as con traventions of their moral code. In dividual Japs committed more bar barities than the Germans...