Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sprucer than when he waddled through his filmed portrait of the artist (Joyce Cary's madcap Gulley Jimson) as an old sot, Cinemactor Sir Alec Guinness beamed sedately at a kind word from Princess Margaret at a royal film performance of The Horse's Mouth. Down the line, spinach-maned Chanteuse Juliette Greco and Cinemactress Peggy (Cash on Delivery) Cummins awaited the royal pleasure...
Hillsdale, the four-year-old bay colt that is suddenly the hottest piece of horseflesh in U.S. racing, flashed across the finish line to win the $177,150 Santa Anita Maturity. In a box near the finish line, a huge bulk of a man broke down and cried for joy. At 3:30 next morning, flushed with triumph and celebration, Clarence Whitted ("Big Smitty") Smith, 40, wandered out to Hillsdale's barn, delivered a rambling oration to his horse...
Learning by Anarchy. The leveling force was a brand of progressivism far wilder than anything ever dreamed of by U.S. life adjusters. While progressive educators in the U.S. talked of learning by doing, the Communist line became virtually learning by anarchy. Says Hechinger: "Schools were run by student-elected committees. Even elementary school pupils had a voice equal to their teachers. Book learning was discredited. Communist youth leaders not only spied on the teachers but could countermand their orders and free pupils from classroom work. Examinations were labeled the marks of bourgeois reaction. Homework was prohibited...
...roughly the decade of the 1920s, the Young Pioneers held sway in the schools, and students learned biology through such "socially useful works" as anti-cockroach campaigns in the slums. Then, abruptly, the party line changed; hard learning returned to favor, and the progressivists were kicked...
...Depression, Frye merged Standard into Western Air Express, which later merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to, become Transcontinental & Western Air, a pioneering coast-to-coast airline. (T.W.A. billed itself as "The Lindbergh Line," kept Charles Lindbergh on the payroll as an adviser, but dropped the title in 1938 when Lindbergh made isolationist speeches for America First...