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...cocktail party an exactress cooed: 'But why, if they don't like the conditions in the hotels, don't they find some other job? My Gawd, I'd be willing to pay two pounds a week for a charwoman...
...Gawd Bless You All!" The fight on Monday, April 30, over the admission of authoritarian Argentina was another real crisis. Molotov saw his chance and took it; the U.S., having made the Latin countries support the earlier admission of Russia's Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics, was committed to bring Argentina in, too. Although the Russians were roundly beaten on the vote, they looked as happy as a tiger that had swallowed a young parrot. They had a moral issue that they could use forever after...
...taught at Chapel Hill from 1925 to 1930; "they're really doing things down there." At Chapel Hill, Jones met Paul Green, the Carolina dramatist; halfway through a performance of Green's "The Field God," in which Jones' daughter took part, Green stalked up to him and chortled: "Gawd ain't this a folk play, it's got hog-guts, killin' 'n everythin' bloody." Professor Jones will vehemently deny any charges that he ever wrote any folk drama...
...than Steinbeck's, his Ozark dialect more difficult than that of WPA's Tennesseans. Sample: "I done lak seed a sicknun woming a widdur nur no bline gurl withouten no pappy, but shore ez youah name ez Hogner I makun yourn short a pappy, so help me Gawd!" Young Ned Fulton recounts the impact of drought on his father, his sisters, his starving neighbors in their little grey houses. Love interest is Ned's tenderness for Milldy, a mute Ozark urchin. After a raid on the general store, in which Pop Fulton is shot, angry Ned leads...
Torch Singer Helen Morgan returned from England, received interviewers aboard the S.S. Washington. Sighed she: "My gawd, the money...