Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plenty of professors, but no good murderers." He was sentenced to ten years in jail. His whereabouts since 1947, when he was theoretically released, are unknown. But his policy of "national Bolshevism," in various guises, has become Communist s.o.p. It was not the first or last time that Joseph Stalin had learned from his victims...
...Joseph Goldstein is an elderly New York lawyer and ex-city magistrate who likes to tilt at educational windmills-and sometimes bowls them over. In 1940 he helped unseat Bertrand Russell from a teaching chair at the College of the City of New York on the grounds that Russell's writings were "lecherous, salacious . . . lustful." Last week Goldstein took off on another joust: unless two books which he considered "a menace" were banned from classrooms and public-school libraries within five days, he threatened to sue the Board of Education. The two books were Oliver Twist (the British film...
...much does it cost U.S. taxpayers to subsidize U.S. airlines? Nobody knows for sure, but last week Joseph J. O'Connell Jr., chairman of CAB, told the New York City Bar Association that CAB soon hopes to find out. CAB expects to break down the Government payments to airlines into outright subsidies and the amount airlines have earned carrying the mail...
Portrait of Jenny (Selznick), originally a wispy, sentimental fantasy by Robert Nathan, has become in Hollywood's hands a piece of purest fustian. The yarn it spins oncerns a young painter (Joseph Cotten) who falls in love with a twelve-year-old sprite of a girl named Jenny (Jennifer Jones). Though she has been dead for years, Jenny goes right on popping in & out of Cotten's life. What is more confusing, she is a few years older every time she appears and soon reaches an age where it is respectable for Gotten, who is aging only normally...
...denouncing poverty . . . The girl Leigh [Actress Vivien Leigh] was round today [and] I thought of walking . . . with her to attract attention to myself . . . Was [Rilke] a poet? ... I am not certain whether Picasso is the name of the latest car or a horse . . . Burne-Jones was a great artist . . . [Joseph] Conrad [once] challenged me to a duel. Unfortunately, [H.G.] Wells got in the way, otherwise Conrad would have taken his place among the saints . . . When I was a little boy I was always playing the devil. My chief delight was to paint . . . walls . . . with pictures of Mephistopheles . . . As a child...