Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though the Supreme Court in 1943 reversed its previous decision, decided that refusal to take part in the flag ritual was no crime...
...still as lively as Santa Claus. Yet anyone who thumbed through the sport section of his local newspaper last week found, it full of stories of commercialism that belonged on the business page, or stories of corruption that belonged up front with the other crime news. Examples...
...political field would be entirely successful. Two short, unsigned poems, "Dream Work" and "Projections," are bright and clever, but a short story, "The Damned," and a review of the French film, "It Happened at the Inn," are both weak. The story, which concerns the revelation of a crime committed by a just-buried and much-respected member of a farm community, is clumsy and underdeveloped. The author, who is anonymous, handles the dialogue with assurance, but otherwise his style is labored and often descends to jargon. A. G. Haas, who reviews 'It Happened at the Inn," seems unable to control...
...wish for priests who, in the words of Pope Pius XI, dedicate the better part of their endeavors and their zeal to winning back the laboring masses to Christ and to His Church. He has battled against economic injustices. . . . He has . . . battled . . . against unemployment, insecurity, disease and crime. . . . Because of him, and men like him, no one can say that the [Roman] Catholic Church is irrelevant today...
...Bailey. Few British authors since the days of Charles Dickens and his disciple George Gissing have tried to do for London what numerous U.S. writers have done for New York. As a result, Dulcimer Street is likely to be an eye opener for U.S. readers. Apart from the crime he commits, Author Collins' Percy Boon is a typical young Londoner of 1939-as dedicated to intricate machinery and peroxide beauty as Americans are supposed to be. Percy's natural habitats are not the fast-disappearing pubs and winding streets of old London, but new London's numerous...