Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nova Scotia-raised Neil MacNeil, who left Canada for New York in 1917, eventually became an assistant managing editor of the New York Times. Last week he turned up in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, to get an honorary law degree from his alma mater, St. Francis Xavier University. Said he: mass Canadian emigration to the U.S. should cease because in the atomic age "it may be necessary to abandon [the British] Isles and move the center of the British Empire to Canada. What remains of the British Empire [needs] reorganization and regeneration, and in both of these Canada might have...
...Encouraged, Hollenbeck promised soon to turn a "detached, noncommittal eye" on wire services and newsmagazines, as well as on the newspapers' columnists, comic and editorial pages, slanted news, twisted headlines and bent prose. Said CBS's delighted Edward R. Murrow: "I think we'll get a mass audience for this one. But even if we don't, it's definitely not just a summer filler...
Despite the "honeys" that sugar-coat her talk, Georgia is no Southern belle. She began life as Fredda Gibson in Massachusetts, and sang her first notes in a Worcester, Mass, orphanage. At 15, she drifted to Boston, divided her evenings between waltzing in a dance studio and warbling in a nightclub...
...Newburyport, Mass...
...secret of Bend Sinister's effect is that it places side by side, heightened by the selectivity of an adept and angry writer, the most moronic abominations of totalitarianism and the finest lights of the secular European mind. The hoaxed and flattered humanity of the mass man is contrasted with the honest and deeply suffering humanity of the individual; but all this is done so lightly that it seems a mocking and superior amusement...