Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which includes Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Herbert Marshall, and John Payne, among innumerable others, gives the same sort of not-particularly-exciting performance. Clifton Webb, in a part which seems almost to have been custom-tailored for him, makes the most of every one of his opportunities, and should merit the greatest share of whatever acting murels you might care to hand...
...summer seasons, nightly promenade concerts in a 10,000 seat monstrosity called the Royal Albert Hall. The London Symphony, under Malcolm Sargent, also performs once a week at the Albert; while the London Philharmonic since its fight with Beecham has been struggling along with guest conductors of no particular merit. Beecham and his new child, the Royal Philharmonic, have thus far been preoccupied in touring Europe and the so-called provinces...
...months or two years ago, the Palestine crisis still awaits firm and honest British action. The partition plan that was presented this fall has been dropped by Whitehall after both Jews and Arabs refused to accept either part or all of the proposal. Jewish circles envisioned little merit in any "autonomous" Jewish State in Palestine that would be unable to fix its own immigration quotas and thus determine its own destiny. The Arabs, (although it is doubtful that the extremely vocal land-owning Arab spokesmen represent real Arab sentiment), have often stated that "if the British proposal permits entry...
...that Peiping Headquarters is going into history, the liberals that General Marshall was speaking about will have a chance to convince the hot heads that peace is less risky than a protracted struggle between two relatively even forces. The withdrawal will have the merit at least of shaking the reactionary view that American guns will always be handy to back their troops. In any event, the Marshall mission was a whole-hearted attempt to keep civil war from adding more dead bodies to the already full canals--perhaps more than more man was necessary...
What we all felt, knowing the resolute Swiss temperament in moments of emergency, was simply that the U.S. Legion of Merit ribbon would look sort of nice on those grey-green Swiss uniforms...