Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives (his own not included) to "uproot Israel" brings to mind the story about a World War I general-probably apocryphal-who told a group of officers, "I'd give 30,000 men to take that hill." From the back of the group came the comment: "Liberal s.o.b., isn...
...steadying influence," one of his old associates once called Supreme Court Justice Stanley Forman Reed. "He isn't the most brilliant member of the court, but he has good judgment." Other lawyers talked about Mr. Justice Reed's prodigious seven-day workweeks, his methodical and careful briefs, his success in keeping an even legal keel through 19 Supreme Court years. "No one could say," a former law clerk summed up, "that anybody was mad at Stanley Reed...
...long rolling, reeking swathes of rich, brown mud. Now there is nothing innately evil about mud, save for the sake of the few dogs and freshmen who disappear with a slow, sinking motion. But after a while the mud dries and green grass begins to grow. Now grass isn't innately evil either, except for its color. The green of the grass in the Yard clashes with the green cement in front of Sever Hall. Green cement is far more goodthan green grass as it lasts all year round and starves ugly worms. So it is to be hoped than...
...picture is over? You can bet your week's wampum it isn't. That Oregon trail was 2,000 miles long, and Realist Disney seems determined to make the moviegoer jolt, bolt or Colt his way over every dad-burned mile...
...bought and, in true Hollywood fashion, not used. Instead, the story merely borrowed the names and professions of Marquand's characters and was thrown together as a frothy comedy, presumably on the theory that if a plot is silly enough, it is bound to be funny. It isn...