Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kaiser Wilhelm II, and for its lese majesty was frequently banned. It took on new teeth in the 1920s just in time to start potshotting at the rise of Nazism. One Simpl view of Hitler showed the top of his head lifted up to reveal a void within. "Isn't it strange," remarked the magazine, "that you can make such a lot of trouble with so little stuff?" It was not strange, of course, that such temerity resulted in another banning...
...society, and I don't know if it's bad for us or not, but it's pleasanter. I don't suppose even now parents are very glad when their children become poets, but it's not such a desperate undertaking. Still, being good isn't any easier...
...meatier roles, and eventually a chance to be Flint-both off-screen and on. The one thing he cannot abide, however, is the amorous women who are always sidling up to him in the street. "They don't see me-they see a guy named Flint. That isn't me; I'm just...
...partners' tampered tax returns. By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money. In a shabby shack, the kids rejoice around the suitcase full of loot; but while they grow frenetic, Quinn turns splenetic. Money, he decides in a jolting flash of insight, isn't everything, and in the end he sets the cash on fire. The kids-like the viewer -wind up with nothing...
...actual review ought to go like this: "If you're looking for a well-written book about quotations, this isn't it. However, it does bring to mind how much you'll enjoy rereading Bartlett's. Every page of this book is padded with the author's insistent belaboring of the obvious. A key quotation is also omitted: the argument he used to get his book published with a grant from the Ford Foundation...