Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Goldstein and others who consider The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic [TIME, April 4], I would suggest they . . . reread the play with the open-mindedness they ask of others. Viewed from the 20th Century, the Christians make a pretty poor showing, on the whole. It is they who suffer from delusions of grandeur and indulge freely in insults and jibes; it is they who . . . mouth words like mercy and justice, only to evade an honest bargain by means of a cheap legal trick...
...Saddle. In Amherst, Mass., 94 year-old Mrs. Lois Mitchell, horseback riding for the first time in 70 years, had a complaint: "I had to whip him to make him trot . . . Bicycling is more fun because I can put more vim into...
...Boys." As the debate rolled on, Missouri's knob-nosed Clarence Cannon pitched in. As chairman of the House Appropriations Committee he held too important a post to make a foolish, tactless speech. But Missourian Cannon made one anyhow, with a blast that all but declared war in the first breath, antagonized all possible allies in the next...
...mother died in 1916, father was married to Amelia Kien. Times were better. The family moved into a better house and Frankie led a pleasant life. His stepmother and sister Nora were devoted to him. He swam in Lake Washington, tinkered with a $10 motorcycle which he could never make run, worked at a few after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High, was to go to college. Then father...
...closed that preliminary chapter in the career of a revolutionary. He was absorbed in Communist reading matter, furiously wrote Communist tracts. He worked only when his stepmother and Nora were down to the last dime. Salesmen's jobs were "bourgeois," he orated. His stepmother pleaded with him to make something of himself. He told a friend: "Humanity's welfare is far more vital than my desires in life." He worked briefly as a puddler in a steel foundry-until one day he received his reward for devotion to the cause. He was put on the Communist Party payroll...