Word: jelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drastic action of last June was unnecessary lay beneath all these protests. But the so-called "Committee to Save Education at Harvard" differs in one way from its forerunners. Enough time has passed since the first kicks were made over the firing of the professors for this act to jell into the symbol of a policy the committee fears. And it is on the basis of this concern that it now makes an appeal for student support...
...Jack Benny and the Jell-O troupe, NBC. Substitutes, starting this week: the Aldrich Family, a problem household recruited from the Broadway play What a Life and groomed by General Foods on Kate Smith's hour this season...
...cousin, Robert Rutherford McCormick, shared the running of the Chicago Tribune (which their grandfather, Joseph Medill, had founded), and Patterson was as much responsible for the common touch in its news coverage as McCormick was for its conservative editorial bias. The two conceptions did not quite jell in the Tribune and Joe Patterson did not get along with his Cousin Bertie much better than he had with other rich boys. During the War they agreed that the Tribune was too small for them both. The decision to start the News, according to Colonel McCormick's recollection, was reached...
...Announcer: Don Wilson (for Jack Benny and Jell...
...their oppressors, whether neighborhood bullies or world-famed Reichsführers. Put as blithely as Shaw puts it, it is a cheering idea. The trouble is that, while it makes The Gentle People a likable fable, it makes it an absurd play. Humorous mood and melodramatic plot refuse to jell. Murder is usually a fairly serious business, and murder conceived and carried out by two good-natured fishermen should be fairly agonizing. Instead it becomes a piece of hanky-panky, awkward, grotesque, unreal...