Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were staging their invasion. Last week Columbia Broadcasting System broadcast his Cortege over WABC, and U. S. critics, who had not been hearing much Milhaud lately, found that Darius Milhaud could still turn a phrase of hard-bitten counterpoint as expertly as any of his contemporaries. A massive, close-knit dead march, the Cortege Funebre was imposingly militant rather than sad, made The Netherlands' fall ring with the relentless finality of doom...
...July choice-the sixth time since 1930 that the R. B. C. had picked a Horton tome. Whether or not they accepted Theologian Horton's answer (a determined "Yes"), believers of all creeds-and of none-found his latest book as full of close-knit arguments as a Jonathan Edwards sermon was full of hellfire. U. S. controversialists who wish to argue with Dr. Horton, however, must wait until fall: he is on another jaunt...
What is to be done with mankind. . .? Whatever these Allies say, they have never been so firmly knit together, and they know in that lies their salvation...
...mellowness sometimes goes maudlin, that his asides on the renaissance of the stage through college and summer theatre companies are more enthusiastic than thoughtful, that about half his characters are themselves straight out of stock, and that as a novel the education of Bethel Merriday is neither so close-knit nor so serious in import as was that of Martin Arrowsmith. But the reader must likewise note that this is not the sour and rickety work of an old self-imitator but a buoyant tale with neither claims nor pretensions to being a profound work...
...against its own members." Said the Hancock officers: "If we do, we've got to go out of business." Fuming unhappily, Gus Geiges and other old union men were forced into the great labor sin of crossing the picket line. Union members, picketed by their fellows, continued to knit away inside Hancock. At week's end the situation was taken into bickering conference...