Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite its grim situations, Key Largo is not realistic drama but a philosophical sweatbox giving the third degree to a question that has agitated every mind from Shakespeare's to the corner grocer's: Is life a mere vicious muddle, or are there things worth dying for? Unfortunately it is a problem not to be solved by all the logarithms of philosophy, but by the simple arithmetic of each individual heart. Anderson is determined to use logarithms. His people look inward, outward, up, down, in prose, in verse, in gestures, in glances, until every word they utter appears...
...outwardly democratic, thrifty way of living pleased the liberty-loving, saving Dutch. Her palaces were really only big homes. Her Majesty's grocer used the same entrance to the Palace at The Hague as did Her Majesty. The Queen could often be seen by The Hague's inhabitants sewing by a Palace window. There were never unduly elaborate entertainments, there were no expensive State trips for the Royal Family...
...Wing, Minn., on the sweetgrass prairie 60 miles from Minneapolis, there grew up the son of a wholesale grocer who was the victim of two apparently irreconcilable ambitions-to be a minister and to make moving pictures. His name was James Friedrich. For two years at the University of Minnesota young Friedrich was a 16 mm. movie bug, ran the Bell & Howell camera supply agency. Still resolved to be a minister, he transferred to the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va. There pious, cinemad James Friedrich set a precedent by writing his doctor's thesis (on the life...
...present-day notion, that an infant must be permitted and encouraged to explore the universe for himself . . . had, fortunately, not yet raised its preposterous head. In my time children were really educated." Dr. Butler ruefully records that he stood third in his high-school graduating class, below a grocer's daughter and a contractor...
...Many a grocer sold himself out of sugar, first on the hoarders' lists, before the buying rush had got well under way, then found that his wholesaler was unable to deliver more until refineries produced it. Others limited customers to small orders and a few refused to sell any unless it went along with a big food order. From every big city between New York and San Francisco went up the cry, "Stop the profiteers!" Said one Washington (D. C.) wholesaler, "The people are behaving like a bunch of damned fools...