Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election night last week Joe Martin sat in the one-room editorial office of his Evening Chronicle in North Attleboro, Mass., his ear at the telephone. His face was puffy with fatigue; the corner of his left eye twitched constantly. He looked even more rumpled than usual. His own campaign for re-election had not been hard. When the State Legislature had redistricted Massachusetts six years ago it had included Wellesley in Joe's district. "A breeding place for candidates," Joe had remarked at the time, thinking of professors; and sure enough, Wellesley had produced a candidate, although...
...boys came in from the Elks Club, and the office filled with noise. Joe grinned indulgently. Brother Charlie winked at some of the boys and invited them upstairs for a quick one (Joe does not drink). Mrs. Lila W. Doe, secretary of the Republican Committee for Franklin, Mass., arrived. LIFE Photographer Allan Grant was there to take pictures (see cut). Joe was back on the telephone. "Send out the notices for the Steering Committee meeting," he said, getting down to business...
While the revival of Salzburg's famous Mozart festival proved to be a pathetic imitation of prewar splendor, Switzerland's Semaines Musicales at Lucerne were entirely successful. The festival depended on atmosphere; two flawless performances of Mozart's Requiem Mass in the same candle-lit cathedral which had formerly resounded to Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. And Lucerne itself, a small town of cobbled streets, hand painted wooden-covered bridges, and a lake on the edge of the alps, is no minor stage setting...
...second act is in a different tone entirely. Here Adam and his disciple. Alter Ego, meet their fate at the hands of their creations. And here the Capeks lose their sense of satire and even of drama and let their play degenerate into a mass of obscure symbolism and meaningless, unmotivated action...
Federal Reserve. In East Weymouth, Mass., Samuel Schofield bought 64 bars of Army surplus soap, found each stamped: 'Save Soap to Win the War. (Signed) Commander in Chief, Abraham Lincoln...