Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reminiscent mood last week. But memories of a poverty-haunted childhood in Tredegar, South Wales, left the Minister of Health far from mellow. "No amount of cajolery and no attempts at ethical or social seduction," he told a meeting of Laborites at Manchester, "can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin . . ." "What is Toryism," he asked later, "but organized spivery...
Georges du Mesnil de la Tour lived in the 17th Century, in a quiet town deep in the Duchy of Lorraine. There he married an heiress, and probably using his family as models, painted his life away. He sold a few canvases to the Dukes of Lorraine. Once, when Louis XIII marched into the Duchy in the midst of a plague, La Tour presented him with his Saint Sebastian in the Night. The king removed all other paintings from his room (perhaps, one historian suggests, because he hoped Saint Sebastian would protect him from the plague...
...recent weeks a small army of Federal Reserve Board agents has been reconnoitering deep in the territory of Bank of America and Giannini's holding company, Transamerica Corp. (which also controls 40 smaller banks, owns stock in dozens of industrial and insurance companies). Guided by their reports, FRB last week swung its sling. Under a section of the Clayton Antitrust Act that has never been used before, it quietly issued a stern order to Transamerica: show cause why FRB should not order it to end certain "monopolistic" practices. (Transamerica must answer the charges at a closed hearing in November...
...Deep Waters (20th Century-Fox) is a very mild movie about a lobsterman (Dana Andrews) who loves the sea, a state social worker (Jean Peters) who hates and fears it, and an orphan (Dean Stockwell) in her charge who gets caught in their crossfire. The boy loves the sea as much as Dana does; Dana is glad to take him on as an apprentice and even wants to adopt him; Jean does everything she can to keep him out of the dreadful trade...
Another Part of the Forest. Lillian Hellman's study of family life in the Deep South with Fredric March and a strong cast (TIME...