Word: errants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Labor had the look of an errant youngster who suspects that pa was right. A. F. of L. and C. I. O., concluding their respective conventions in Cincinnati and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 16), were a-twist with statutory cramps. Each had fattened on the Wagner Act; neither was ready to go all the way back to Sam Gompers and confess that what ailed them was an overdose of law. Both blamed the National Labor Relations Board for their gripes, each complained that craven administrators had favored the other. But angry John Lewis and his delegates came close...
...symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer Davis' brother-in-law. Like the now classic Negro Rhapsody of John Powell which followed it, Mrs, Davis' opus was agreeably straightforward. Her knight errant did a good deal of pale loitering and sounded a great deal like the hero of Richard Strauss's Heldenleben but as Opus I it rated at least a passing mark...
...have to deal with are not idealists and sentimentalists, but cold, hardheaded. ruthless, determined men. . . . Such men are more easily impressed by high explosives than by high objectives. "We are not our brother's keeper and we cannot go running about all over Europe like a knight-errant rescuing damsels in distress. It is not our job to play the part of an amiable Don Quixote...
Despite nonsuccess with Chiang Wei-kuo, the New Life Movement otherwise was successfully enforced. The Generalissimo & Mme Chiang had individuals whom they trusted planted unobtrusively in all branches of the Government. These spies for Puritanism reported direct, and in Nanking not a few errant officials' careers were mysteriously broken...
Damsel in Distress (RKO Radio) sends Fred Astaire dancing into a foggy English countryside to rescue fair-haired, big-featured Joan Fontaine from the errant vagaries of a typical P. G. Wodehouse story. Not so lissome a heroine as light-footed Ginger Rogers (temporarily otherwise engaged), inexperienced Actress Fontaine (Olivia de Havilland's sister) goes gamely but somewhat lumberingly through the curvets and caracoles required of her. Far more facile as an Astaire partner is, of all people, rumpish Radio Dunce Gracie Allen, who with her harassed husband, George Burns, makes up the Astaire party...