Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan and enforce an active high-grade economic productivity upon its members or subjects. . . . I am sure that this policy of equalizing misery and organizing scarcity, instead of allowing diligence, self-interest and ingenuity to produce abundance, has only to be prolonged to kill this British Island stone dead. We are told, and I am told, that we Conservatives have no policy. . . . Here is the policy: establish a basic standard for life and labor and provide the necessary basic foods for all. Once that is done, set the people free-get out of the way and let them all make...
...friend Orozco sitting cross-legged in the heart of an electrical storm. "After all," he explained, "you can't take a man like Orozco, put him in a chair and paint a likeness. You have to paint him as he is." A plucked rooster, obscenely huge, lying dead and surrounded by columns of a Lilliputian army, symbolized the Death and Funeral of Cain. Our Image, a forceful study of a giant with its hands outstretched, sported a brachycephalic boulder for a head...
...says, "is a suburban paper published "on the island of Manhattan . . . as perfectly preserved as the corpse of Lenin." Liebling's impression of Pundit Walter Lippmann: "Nowtherefore and whereas and ahem." PM's Max Lerner writes editorials "like an elephant treading the dead body of a mouse into the floor of its cage." Liebling often rags the Chicago Tribune and Bertie McCormick, but wonders if it "isn't like punching the heavy bag. The Colonel is in the direct line of Dickens' Colonel Diver of the Rowdy Journal and of Elijah Pogram, who 'Defied...
Declaring war on the recommendation announced yesterday by the joint Associated Harvard Clubs-Alumni Association Memorial Committee, Student Council President Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46 last night said that the question of commemoration for the University's Second World War dead would dominate the agenda at next Wednesday's Council meeting...
That decision, unanimous with the exception of the Student Council's representative, favors a $200,000 name-tablet in Memorial Church, coupled with a $500,000 scholarship fund, for commemoration of the University's Second World War dead. In itself it simply represents the expectable hesitancy on the part of the chieftains of the Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs to conduct the fundraising campaign which the undergraduate-endowed Student Activities Center would involve. But justified resentful response to the decision will rest with the near-chicanery of the Committee's procedure and its continuous hush-hush policy...