Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conclude a review of Stephen Seley's book with: "It is now 24 years since James Joyce gave the world, in Ulysses, his great experiment in stream-of-consciousness writing. Baxter Bernstein not only recalls the horde of little streamlets that bubbled up in the master's wake but proves once & for all that though the great original is still alive and glowing, its imitators are only fit to be dropped thhhh into the cuspidor" [TIME, July...
Please, Omniscient Sir, tell the assembled class what TIME said then about "the great original" that is "still alive and glowing...
...while, in the first hopeful months of Marshall Plan aid, Congress was able to congratulate itself for carrying out the largest and most generous effort in the world's history. But now it seemed that those five billions would not be enough. Great Britain had got the lion's share of ECA help; now she wanted at least an extra half billion this year. There were official hints that a stabilizing fund was necessary to save the pound. No sooner was the North Atlantic Treaty ratified than there was a demand for a billion and a half...
...Great Dan Patch (W. R. Frank; United Artists) is a sentimental, sway-backed horse opera about a champion pacer of the turn of the century, and the Hoosier hayseeds who bred and trained him. On the track Dan cuts a handsome and convincing figure, but the scriptwriter did him wrong by stuffing his feed bag.full of low grade Hollywood corn. Sample: Dan shows up outside the bedroom window of his dying master (Henry Hull) looking as if he were prepared to read the burial service. Equally lugubrious are Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell and Ruth Warrick, all of whom...
...columns for Hearst's King Features Syndicate, Runyon wrote a review of his own work. Said Runyon of Runyon: "By saying something with a half-boob air ... he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage . . . He is a hired Hessian of the type writer ... I tell you Runyon has subtlety but it is the considered opinion of this reviewer that it is a great pity the guy did not remain a rebel out & out, even at the cost...