Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ickes: Of course, that is a terrible crime, isn...
...Some will say that this will mean war. I don't believe it. It merely means that the Western powers are going to try to use the same strategy we have been using all along, and I think we shall appreciate that. Isn't there an old proverb saying, 'You must meet force with force?' Well, you're going to use force now. We are surprised it took you that long to get around to it. It will clear...
...Methodist minister, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Merle Crowell, Novelist Walworth lives in a remodeled farmhouse in Chappaqua, N.Y. Says her friend, Writer Grace Perkins, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Fulton Oursler: "She's small, she's trig, and if she isn't younger than her married daughter, her heart doesn't know it. Her spiritual essence is a faith that permeates everything she does or thinks. . . . Her writing keeps her ticking. . . . When with book she inhabits a secret world, but with delivery she emerges with a renewed and frolicsome affection...
...Gaiety Theatre on Washington Street was really just the old (1939) Elsa Maxwell hit, "Hotel For Women," a staid enough piece by even Watch and Ward standards. While its policy is less consistent and less, salacious, the Majestic Theatre, too, is currently deceiving its audiences, though it isn't trying to get away with anything...
...Majestic isn't a museum, which means that all pictures cannot be revived. Current attraction is "Meet John Doe," made by Warner Brothers in 1941 and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brannan, Barbars Stanwyck, and James Gleason--an entertaining, if not profound, social-conscience picture that has none of the anachronisms in fashion and dialogue that bar many old pictures from the Majestic screen...