Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked as though Labor would stick stubbornly to the scheme. At his country house in Essex, where he farms and bird-watches, Plummer was still hopeful of getting the scheme straightened out. Said he: "We'd be pretty damn fools if we had to present another financial report like this next year!" Subordinating his distaste for Labor planning to his fervent support of empire development, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express had a Churchillian message of cheer to Plummer: "The whole harsh picture is a stimulus to resolution and skill, an appeal to the nation's grit...
...from the wood on every side, came the hunt," wrote Authoress Mary Webb in the climax to her 32-year-old novel, Gone to Earth. "Coming, as they did, from the deep gloom, fiery-faced and fiery-coated, with eyes frenzied by excitement, and open, cavernous mouths, they were like devils emerging from hell on a foraging expedition...
...Order. This week, like a diligent lawyer checking up on the fine-print clauses, Maclean's magazine stepped in to warn the landlord that the new tenant was not all he seemed to be. Maclean's Ottawa editor, Blair Fraser, wrote an eyebrow-lifting article entitled "Where the Yanks Rule a Part of Canada." He charged that U.S. legal privileges in Newfoundland were out of line, and that Newfoundlanders had no real protection of law against the U.S. forces. Fraser cited examples...
...like jazz," said the Archbishop of Canterbury, "although no doubt there is good and bad. It is one of my links with life I have not developed...
...court, the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior helped to win dismissal of a complaint against the Korn Kobblers, a band of zany musicians. The police charge: the band had been riding along Broadway, making "unnecessary noise" with instruments that included "a pipe, a washboard and something that looked like an inverted spittoon." Testified Melchior: some musicians, like Wagner, are simply ahead of their time. He assured the judge that to his sensitive ear, the Korn Kobblers were "expressing themselves in true American folk music...