Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huey ("Every Man a King") Long has been dead for three years and five months. Gerald ("Share the Wealth") Smith is forgotten. Father Coughlin ("Social Justice") still radiorates, but not so many listen as used to. Father Divine ("Peace, It's Wonderful!") still operates from Harlem his "heaven" across the Hudson River from Franklin Roosevelt's mother's place. Principal demagogues in the Democracy currently audible are Martin Dies (see p. 13) and Doctor Townsend...
...knights, a "tun of a man," a "huge bombard of sack"-guzzler, lecher, liar, braggart, coward, thief-he is like some centrifugal force overcoming gravitation. Far from being a villain, he is the most entertaining and lovable of knaves. Caught out in his outrageous boasts, his fantastic lies, shamming dead (to avoid being killed) on the battlefield, he never loses his unshatterable aplomb, never lags in invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting to be acquitted, only certain of being pardoned...
Outward Bound. Competent revival of Sutton Vane's dramatic story of people who discover they are dead (TIME...
...Sieck was invited to KMOX again. This time he knew all the answers. Glancing over his spectacles now and then at the big studio clock as he rolled off his message. Parson Sieck was pleased to fancy that he and the big second hand were finishing in an expert dead heat. "Glory to God in the highest," he intoned, "Amen...
...metre band an automatically recurring signal so that a mother ship with a direction-finding receiver can track down and recover the catch. Since few household radio receivers tune much higher than 560 metres, the chances of an ordinary radio listener tuning in a dead whale will be slight...