Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rattling good yarn full of the healthy animal instincts, presented in a very colorful fashion. As for the rest of the program, a fair Information Please and a not-so-good March of Time appear with the Grade Z picture "Forced Landing." If you're in the mood, "Aloma of the South Seas" is good entertainment, but cut the rest...
...cannot be said too strongly that casual, offhand remarks at a press conference are the worst possible way to deal with matters of such great moment. These are things to be done carefully and thoroughly . . . not things to be tossed off in this fashion. Mr. Roosevelt is indulging in a petty vanity, which is that he is very smart. . . . Mr. Churchill, who has as good a brain as Mr. Roosevelt, does not do it, and President Wilson did not do it. . . . If the President is wise, he will henceforth confine his press conferences to domestic questions and to . . . action taken...
...Coach Snavely used an unorthodox defense that could be used to stop only one thing--the screwball Syracuse attack--in which the center faced his own goal line when centering the ball and passed the pigskin through the air end over end instead of in the usual spiral fashion...
...this calculation, the U.S. will provide 25% of Britain's food supply. The billion will also be spent in a fashion that will reach more people more directly than at any time since the defense program got under way. Orders . for arms filter slowly into the spending stream, but purchases for farm products, partly because the Department of Agriculture's Surplus Marketing Administration has long been set up and functioning, can pour out like a flash flood. Half a billion will go for meat, fish, fats, lard - mostly pork. Some $250,000,000 will go for dairy products...
...about nothing in particular, seem interminable. The significance of Ellen Rogers is not in its writing but in the fact that here for the first time Farrell has contracted his view from social to individual conflicts, against the backdrop of a higher social milieu. He has succeeded after a fashion, like a strong but clumsy pugilist who beats down his opponent with 15 rounds of body blows...