Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admittedly, Allen, with the help of guests, has risen to the heights of humor on occasions. Few things in radio have been better done than, for example, the Gilbert & Sullivan parody of last year with Leo Durocher. It is here that Allen's genius finds its best outlet-that is as a writer, and perhaps a director, rather than as a grater-voiced, not-so-funny funnyman...
...like the free-&-easy, friendly Midwesterners of his books. There were neat, small, wooden houses with Victorian fretwork along the eaves, lace curtains and begonias and geraniums in the windows. The houses and. roads had the same unpainted, unpaved frontier look. The trim wooden fences could have done with Tom Sawyer's or any other system of whitewashing. A lad of about Tom's age came past, dragging his feet on his way to school the way Tom did. He had a 2-ft. birch whittling stick, from which his shiny-bladed penknife was 'making shavings...
Other things were done in Vera Cruz. Roads were built. More than half the budget the second year went for education and new schools. But the most spectacular thing was settlement of the land war. It caused real estate in Vera Cruz to boom. Aléman was smart and in the right place. He and Serrano invested in Vera Cruz hotels...
Most Canadians still have no idea what the Pan American Union is. The others ask: What has it ever done? A majority of the Dominion's people still look to London and are likely to oppose any entangling alliance which may weaken the bond with the British Commonwealth. French Canadians want no part of Latin America's troubles. Orderly Canadians regard Latin Americans as Latin folk given to turmoil and revolution...
...bill granting $600,000,000 to the Philippines for rehabilitation work, somebody in Washington clumsily attached a rider stipulating that the United States is to have equal rights of 'exploitation' in the Philippines [TIME, March 24]. It will take a long, long time to repair the damage done by the word 'exploitation...