Word: llewellynisms
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...wind was warm enough last week to melt the snow around the tipples of most of the nation's coal mines; there was a faint hint of spring in the air. Like a grey old bear ending his winter's hibernation, John Llewellyn Lewis lumbered from his den to negotiate with the nation's bituminous operators...
...this country the plan would calm the populace considerably. Take John L. Lewis, for instance. . . . How easy it would be, if we had a king, to knight Lewis. . . . Sir Jonathan Llewellyn Lewisse of Coalhod-on-Cumberland. Isn't it magic? . . . Not a coal miner will listen to him. [Or] a businessman that got obstreperous. . . . You can see him now: Lord Henry Fordson, Earl of V-8-on-Highway...
...Richard Llewellyn's novel told the sordid story of frustration and poverty in the slums of London, and hit the reader with the message that something must be done. In adapting the novel for Hollywood, Clifford Odets has purposefully subdued the sociology, and it is doubtful whether anyone, including Mr. Odets, actually knows what "None but the Lonely Heart" now means...
...Shapley, professor of Astronomy, and Merle Fainsed, associate professor of Government, have already addressed the newsmen in Tuesday afternoon meetings. The follows have also met in bi-weekly dinners, with Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Republic, James Reston of the Washington bureau of the New York Times, and Llewellyn B. White of the Office of War Information attending...
...start toward celluloid when Matinee Idol Gary Grant, a warm admirer of Novelist Richard Llewellyn's works, told RKO's Executive Producer Charles Koerner that he wanted to play the novel's pimply, adolescent, Cockney hero, Ernie Mott. It got a propitious leg-up when young Producer David Hempstead called in Clifford Odets to do the screen play. It got itself and Hollywood a new and gifted director when Odets took on that job, too. For still more luster, Producer Hempstead-and the script-enticed Ethel Barrymore back into pictures...