Word: lewises
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Octopus. He heartily dislikes actors and always insists that musicians get the lower berths when traveling with dramatic troupes. He hates the greens on golf courses, and when playing, simply skips them. He is eternally suspicious of lawyers. He believes "they can steal without getting put in jail" and...
¶ Well-meaning members of St. Michael's Church in Charleston, S.C. invited Rabbi Lewis A. Weintraub to speak on the Palestine question, then served him a pork dinner. The Rabbi pointedly passed it up.
"The inane inclination of the average American to ... almost genuflect at the presence of a European title, phony or otherwise," snarled Sinclair Lewis, "is, to my mind ... a pathetic demonstration of sycophants. ... I wish the British would test our ridiculous national sub servience by offering a few of their hollow...
Others were much less inclined to be charitable. Said Indiana's Democratic National Committeeman Frank McHale: "It's a good riddance. He is a much confused man and always had his thingamajigs mixed up with his whatchamacallits. I nominate for his running mate John L. Lewis and then...
Labor's Cut. Union labor pointed at the fat corporate profits and demanded a bigger cut too. (Average weekly wages in all manufacturing industries rose 9.87% to $51.75.) There was also a significant shift in the size of the cut that the different segments of labor got. John L...