Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more excitement is called for. Hysteria over the "Red" issue is everywhere. At Peekskill over a hundred people were injured in stone throwing after a concert. Local vigilantes have suggested running a Harvard professor out of town. Page one of the same CRIMSON says that the Navy wants to know, among other things, what sort of social affairs its ROTC men attend. The jury and the judge in the Hiss case were threatened after the trial. And now leaders of the Communist Party are jailed for "teaching, advocating, and encouraging." This hasn't been a crime in the many other...
Before you know it she has him in the movies--doing the songs for "The Jolson Story." There is a charming studio interlude where Larry Parks playing Al Jolson meets Larry Parks playing Larry Parks, and finally, the only redeeming feature of the whole piece, a scene of the premiere of "The Jolson Story...
...castle," or was it "a Turkish Babel?" asked the wags. Or was it a mixture of "the Mosque of St. Athanase, in Egypt," plus "the temple of Apollinop-olis at Etfou?" Cincinnati citizens, who watched it abuilding in 1829 didn't know what the devil it was-except that it was to be named "Trollope's Bazaar" and to supply high-priced fancy goods and foreign culture. But "every rogue within cheating distance" was working on it for the nutty British owner, 49-year-old Mrs. Frances Trollope. They were selling her bricks at three times the market...
...King George in the snoot and tossed Britain (as Cincinnati tossed its garbage) out into the street. When Mrs. Trollope gently hinted at the "total and universal want of manners, both in males and females," she was either assured that the rudeness in question was a local "peculiarity" ("You know so little of America"), or she met the fierce retort: "Our manners are very good manners, and we don't wish any changes from England...
...Maupassant matured too quickly. At the age of nine he was writing to his mother: "I was first in composition and as a reward Madame de X took me to the circus with Papa. It seems she was also rewarding Papa for something, but I don't know what...