Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trouble with Us." On the House side there was more harmony, and possibly more strength. Joe Martin, the blacksmith's son who had run the House with an iron hand during the 80th Congress, was picked as minority leader of the 81st. He renamed Illinois' facile Leslie Arends to Arends' old job of whip...
...years to reach an under standing on a basis that peace is possible with all nations. I know it can be done." The President's remark may have been meant to raise hopes. What it did was raise questions. Was there "some new sceneshifting going on behind the Iron Curtain? Who were the "certain leaders" in Russia who wanted to end the Cold war? The President did not explain in his speech and he would not clarify it later...
Jane Russell plays the entire screenplay deadpan, which is evidently the extent of her acting ability, but in the case perhaps deadpanning is the best idea. The audience was captivated by her charm (and figure). One other actor should be noted, Chief Iron Man Cody, who plays an unidentified redman admirably...
Forced to move, they settled in nearby New Philadelphia. There Mrs. Marsh kept the family together by iron determination and a switch that was put to stinging use whenever any of the boys broke her cardinal rule: "Don't fight among yourselves. You must depend on each other." By mowing lawns, selling papers, and other odd jobs, and paying heed to "Mother," the Marshes made ends meet. In six years Mother Marsh bought a white frame house...
...numerous peeks behind the Iron Curtain, the most candid and observant was Sam Welles's Profile of Europe. In down-to-earth pictures of daily living, he showed that Russian Communism is still a burden borne on the patient backs of the overworked and undernourished Russian people. In I Saw Poland Betrayed, onetime U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane wrote a blunt, forceful account of the means by which the Kremlin (with little resistance from the U.S. Government) took over the Polish state. Political pundits had a sure-fire topic in Russia v. the Western democracies. Most crisp and provocative...