Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President William Green last week lambasted C.I.O.'s John Lewis for croaking: "If labor isn't given a greater voice in ... [labor] matters, those who direct them should not expect too much cooperation from labor." Promised Mr. Green brightly: "I assure the Government of the United States that it can expect the fullest cooperation from all of the members and officers of the American
...years Ordnance officers have been begging this manufacturer to develop a sight, that manufacturer to redesign a breech block, another for a recoil mechanism, with never enough money to back it up, and now all of a sudden ordnance is expected to have mass production. It just isn't in the wood...
...Greet your hostess and say: "How do you do, oh, isn't that cute?"-thus calling attention to some bit of novelty jewelry she is certain to be wearing. If she is clad in a bathing suit, say: "How do you do, aren't you lovely?" Plain "How do you do?" won't do. It's considered rude...
Bitter was the opposition of Laborites, virtually all State-schooled. Argumentative Labor M.P. Aneurin Bevan* - told the House tartly: "There is a great body of opinion, which isn't sufficiently articulate, that public schools should be allowed to die a natural death. Some would like them to die a little more violently." Crumped acid Labor M.P. Charles Ammon: "While it is said the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it can be answered now that the Battle of Britain was won on the playing fields of the [State] schools of England...
...fine if you're writing for the College Humor Swing Fraternity, and thus have a wide audience of rabid rugcutters from the jukebox campuses. It is also fine if you have an inclination for it, which no Crimson columnist has had yet. The commercial type of swing just isn't worth a weekly spiel from anyone's hardworking typewriter. Such a column would be only a series of publicity releases for a group which certainly doesn't need any more attention called to it. Their music has no other function than to sell itself, and beyond its passability...