Word: grist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silence. Recent events, however, have convinced us that continued silence will only play into the hands of the isolationists and enemies of aid to Russia. For they are not silent, and every act of the Soviet press or government which can be misunderstood or criticized in America is grist to their mill...
Beck does not talk prices. Instead he writes a chatter column, fictionalizing the personalities of the shopkeepers. ("The Grist Mill ... the darnedest bust you ever heard of ... is operated by a sad-eyed, spanielesque woman named Cora.") Sample treatment : "The trouble is that whenever we advertise something-demmit, people come in and buy it. And then we're out of that too. So today we have scoured the Farmers Market in search of something that nobody could ever have any use for ... and B-ruther-r-r we have found it. Eureka! . . . down at Manny Vezie's Gallery...
...Human Comedy (M.G.M.) is a faithful translation of William Saroyan's novel (TIME, March 1); hence it is like no other picture that ever came out of Hollywood. Such things as plot worry Saroyan not at all. People are the grist for his mill, and the Macauleys of Ithaca, Calif, are good grist. Saroyanesquely naive one moment, they are profound the next; now smug and annoying, now simple and lovable. Definitely, they are human beings, and fortunately the story of their day-today, small-town lives is told with few of the irrelevancies that Saroyan usually contrives. There...
...Davis. His voice was calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground fine and digestible, sieved through a faintly subacid cast of thought...
...Vatican-to whose service the Jesuits are specially dedicated-also anticipates material as well as spiritual contingencies, has just moved one step nearer self-sufficiency by building a grist mill behind its walls. It has had its own stocks of wheat and bread grains for some time, will grind only for the residents of 109-acre Vatican City...