Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twilight Blindness. The angry Yuan demanded a listing of the exact measures to be taken. Cried a member from Central China: "Nearly all Manchuria and North China have been lost . . . Yet the ever-weakening strength of government troops and their low morale have not even been discussed in Dr. Wong's report." When the Yuan adjourned for the day, 132 legislators were still clamoring to speak...
...overlooking a pond, Jersey Joe (real name: Arnold Cream) likes to sneak off to his room and play the phonograph, singing along with his favorite Ink Spots and Savannah Churchill records. At night he talks by telephone with each of his six kids. When he's a little low in spirits, he reads his well-thumbed Bible: "The Bible gives me lots of imagination ... it really picks me up." Nobody heard much about him until he was an old man of 34 (the same age as Louis*) because, he says, of that case of typhoid fever. He came down...
Editor Hoyt did not need to worry about coverage. With or without Presidential Candidate (for the sixth time) Thomas, U.S. readers would be exposed to all shades of opinion by all varieties of domestic and imported experts. Among them: Cartoonist David Low (for LIFE); Randolph Churchill and ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce (United Features); Rebecca West (Canada Wide Features) ; Novelists Louis Bromfield and Katharine Brush (I.N.S...
...Pirate (M-G-M). Most movie musicals are made as if, at best, they were just "entertainment," and a pretty low grade of it at that. The Pirate is obviously made by people who know that few things in the world could be better, as entertainment and as a work of art, than a first-rate musical. Indeed, as an all-out try at artful moviemaking, this is among the most interesting pictures of the year. Unluckily, much of the considerable artistry that has gone into this production collides head-on with artiness, or is spoiled by simpler kinds...
...other forged masterpiece. Besides, he has to deliver a good deal of ornate language in his deep-city Irish-American diction, very good of itself, but inappropriate here. The total effect of the picture is "entertainment" troubled by delusions of "art," and vice versa. Comedy, whether high or low, is the quickest thing there is to perish under pretension...