Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor its demands for wage boosts, and then tried to hold prices with OPA, hoping production would pull the country out of its hole. Congress axed OPA and, despite the President's pleas, was all set to drive a stake through its heart and bury it at a cross roads (see below). Harry Truman's fum bling efforts to control the economy had failed; now the country, nerves on edge, faced the prospects of a free economy...
...picture's market value (or Want-to-See) depends on four basics: 1) theme -not necessarily the same as plot, 2) title, 3) cast and 4) a relatively unimportant item, treatment (script, direction, acting, etc.). By testing the first three elements on a cross-section audience, A.R.I, can predict, before a foot of film is exposed, whether the finished picture will panic them or put them to sleep...
...Jean Bullit Darlington, of West Chester, Pa., who is suing the University for $100,000 because someone in Fogg Museum gave her Rubens painting. "Descent from the Cross," to an unauthorized art dealer, thereby starting it on a six-year journey, came to Fogg Wednesday to inspect her long-missing masterpiece...
Oldest member of the group is Ronald M. Beveridge, now a resident of Cambridge. Others include Arthur B. Boucot of Philadelphia, with 46 missions over Europe, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with Six Oak Leaf Clusters to his credit; Lehon I. Twarog of New Bedford, Mass, with greatest time in service of the group, including two and a half years in the South Pacific; and Arleigh A. Tison '49 of Shreveport, La., recipient of a Purple Heart for wounds in action...
Soprano Dame Nellie Melba said she met Oscar Wilde in the streets of Paris in 1898, shabbily dressed, with a "hunted look in his eyes." Lord Carson, his old schoolmate who cross-examined Wilde at his first trial, is reported to have seen him lying "haggard" and "painted" in a Paris gutter. Pearson laughs such stories off. Oscar, he declares, never painted his face except to edify American audiences during his U.S. lecture tour (1882). As for being shabby, he was "invariably well-dressed, well-shaved, self-assured...