Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eddie Cantor brooded for Variety. "The public deserves . . . new talent . . . that is not so completely in the groove. Remember, it isn't too far from the groove to the grave. . .. There...
...only did the demonstrators save Smith from a grave of his own digging, they put themselves and the organizations they represent in an unfavorable position. Any "liberal" group can expect to be branded Communistic at one time or another, but the zealots who heckled Smith into silence were practically asking for the red label. Their action gave Smith an opportunity to demonstrate dramatically that his Christian Nationalist Crusade is anti-Communist--something many people will count to be a virtue covering a multitude of sins...
...Polish bourgeoisie took over their little shops and businesses. Now, when an occasional Jew does come back from concentration camp or other exile and reclaims his place, his successor hates him. And every other member of the new Polish bourgeoisie fears that his predecessor might return from the grave...
...Debate. Harry Truman had no choice. Others did. Minutes after the Senate overrode the President's veto, the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel, Gerhard P. Van Arkel, resigned, declaring that he had "grave doubts concerning both the workability and the fairness of this...
...season has begun. Mrs. Murphy, the July choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, dutifully touted by B.-of-M.'s Bookpicker Clifton Fadiman as "compassionate" and "powerful," is a clumsy, cliche-sodden version of The Lost Weekend. The problem of the alcoholic in society is as grave as ever, 'but The Story of Mrs. Murphy swamps it with glycerine tears and marshmallow emotions...