Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Dulles, was a package labeled "Something for Nothing." The Brannan plan was "economic jabberwocky"; if it worked, it would be "the most amazing miracle since the loaves and the fishes." Federal aid to education meant federal-controlled schools. The Democratic Party, like the Communists, was "pretending a great love for human welfare that can find expression only by giving more & more power to the all-powerful central government...
...Love Walks In. Bill O'Dwyer paid no attention. Instead he introduced Love into the campaign, by admitting that he was sweet on a handsome brunette style consultant named Sloan Simpson. When asked if they were to be married, he beamed and whistled the opening bars of Some Enchanted Evening. The results were spectacular. The newspapers bloomed with pictures of the smiling couple, and ran columns of saccharine speculation on the great romance...
...most wistful of all the works of art was a sample of Chinese calligraphy which read: "By chance I saw a short purple jade flute; I know not how to summon music therefrom, yet in my memory rises an airy song of love...
...Clara Clemens Samassoud, daughter of Samuel (Mark Twain) Clemens, sued Columbia Pictures for $300,000 for filming his The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, as "a corny love story...
...flat in himself and pretty unconvincing in his selflessness. Yet, without carrying conviction as a man, he might still-had the play backed him up-have stirred the imagination as a hero. But the play lacks the simple intensity of heroic drama; it shares its villain's love of tricks, and is too full of jagged effects to produce a sustained emotion...