Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...premeditating wits. In an address before the New York Financial Advertisers Association, Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, ad boss of Gimbel Bros., snapped that it was time banks stopped such "pious pronouncements" as these: "a great institution founded on the cornerstone of service and courtesy"; "the challenge of a new era demands the ultimate in achievement." Said she: "One bank says 'You are invited to use the name of this bank on your checks. It is a symbol of strength and security.' What a lot of malarkey. If a check's good, it's good. Everybody will honor...
...other virtues-and it has many-the film is a daring individual gesture, dared in an era when such acts are rare. One of the world's most inspired and most popular artists-a man who for decades has delighted people of all races, from children to highbrows-now deliberately releases a film which almost nobody can wholly like. Many will detest the product and despise Chaplin for producing it. He has replaced his beloved, sure-fire tramp with an equally original, but far less engaging character-a man whose grace and arrogance alone would render him suspect with...
...will likely find a credit account in heaven for the magnificence of his achievements." In Paris, the Socialists were harder on him. Said Pierre Mignot, a biology teacher: "His Taylor* system marks the beginning of modern slavery." Paris youngsters (who belong to the jeep, not the tin-Lizzie era) did not even know his name, and many an oldster shuddered at it. Said grey-haired Gaston, headwaiter at Lavrue's: " Voyez-vous, Monsieur Ford gave us speed. In the old days, Parisians drove their four-in-hands around the boulevards at a civilized ten kilometers an hour. That...
...Budapest, a businessman whose factory is being run as a joint Soviet-Hungarian enterprise rallied from his end-of-an-era sorrow to observe, with a peculiarly Budapestian wistfulness: "He would have made a great partner...
...band has not dabbled in "long-haired" music since its infancy. When a determined group of veterans of another era decided in 1919 to replace the prewar professional football bands with an amateur undergraduate group, they included serious music in their repertoire...