Word: meek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Infant Jesus meek and mild Look on me a little child Pity mine and pity me And suffer me to come to thee...
...wickedness of Paris has been a preoccupation of French novelists ever since Rabelais. But if the new generation of French novelists is to be trusted, Paris is austere compared with the provinces. In books like Guilloux's Bitter Victory, Romains' The Proud and the Meek, the small cities of the Republic seethe with vice, scandal, adultery, perversion that are all the more conspicuous because of the peaceful calm of the surrounding countryside. In Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon, continuing the panoramic novel he began last year in The Bells of Basel, gives the most lurid picture of provincial passion...
Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth...
...Kaufman, for which Columbia's President Harry Cohn last year paid a record price of $200,000. By the end of June, with a new flock of birds added to a cast which already included such rarities as Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Donald Meek, Spring Byington and Mischa Auer, shooting on the picture ended and 329,000 feet of film were sent to the cutting room. A finished feature picture contains 8,000. By last week, You Can't Take It With You was only about twice that size and almost in shape...
Last week the sleuths caught a culprit redhanded. In his pocket were torn pieces of a letter and three marked $1 bills which they had mailed as bait. He was small. meek William Buckly, 57 and father of four, a $1,500-a-year file clerk in the White House mail room. Off to jail he went for six months...