Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doren turns from time to time to Dr. Johnson, but not, in the scholarly fashion, to buttress a point: it is rather as if he had found in that practical, intelligent and independent critic a turn of mind often not dissimilar to his own. Independence is indeed the keynote of Mr. Van Doren's book. In putting behind him the apparatus and techniques of scholarship, he has dared to do what few other critics have done: he has come face to face with Shakespeare. He has recreated the Shakespearean world, and one would like to quote the entire book...
...subject, How Can We Defend Democracy in America Now? and the debaters (Harold Ickes and Hugh Johnson) developed an odd sort of sparring match, with both Administration-Baiter Johnson and New-Dealer Ickes poking at the solar plexus of the Administration's war policy-its Morgan-du Pont loaded War Resources Board (soon to be disbanded). What they finally shook hands on was that the U. S. should stay out of war; what they were still making faces over at the finish was how. Sample audience heckling...
...Woman, to General Johnson: "Don't you think you could better defend democracy by upholding President Roosevelt, who was elected by the great majority of the American people...
...Johnson: ". . . It has been my policy and my practice ever since he started to run for office to defend him when I thought he was right (and I submit that nobody ever defended him better), and to criticize him when I think he is wrong. ... I will continue to do that until they put me in Alcatraz...
Crack British flyer Amy Johnson, who angrily enlisted as a lorry driver when the Civil Air Guard turned her down as an aviatrix, was fined 10s. in a Cardiff, South Wales, court for driving without a license, ?3 for not stopping when ordered, ?2 for careless driving, 178. 6d. for not observing blackout headlight restrictions. Total fine: $25.50. The arresting constable complained that Amy used her nails on him, but she held her fingers up to the judge, said, "You can see I haven't got the kind of nails which scratch." To the officer's accusation that...