Word: morticianly
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...member of the War Cabinet, spoke first for the Government. His dull, domineering gloom gave the House the impression that his job was to bury the Plan. Members gave him a rough ride. Next day, cherubic Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood substituted his perky optimism for the mortician's mood. Sir John had at least approved some social-security innovations, but after half an hour's perking, Sir Kingsley seemed to be suggesting that any changes whatever would be deferred until after the war-and would be considered then only if the financial situation permitted...
From now on the bootblack, the mortician, the laundry man, the upholsterer, the locksmith, the cleaner and the garageman around the corner-to mention a few-can charge no more for their services than they did last March.- OPA so ordered last week as it slapped ceilings over just about everything the law allows, brought 1,000,000 retail "commodity service" establishments and $5 billion-worth of business under price control...
...Borrowed Time (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), borrowed from the 1938 Broadway hit, is a rose-colored peek at the bourn Hollywood visited in Death Takes a Holiday. As gently as a mortician, but allowing itself an occasional smile, it presents Death as a softspoken, courteous gentleman ("Mr. Brink") equipped with an impeccable British accent. Its story is what might happen if an old man, tenacious of life, could get this urbane Grim Reaper trapped up an apple tree...
...Negro daily newspaper,* the Daily Citizen, published and edited by bald, brown William M. Kelley, onetime editor of the weekly Amsterdam News. Publisher Kelley got his paper started by selling stock at $5 a share to Harlem notables like Bishop R. C. Lawson, Alderman John W. Smith, Mortician Rodney Dade; white politicians like Tammany District Leader Thomas F. Murray; and to ordinary residents of Harlem reached by door to door canvass. In appearance, the tabloid Citizen looks like a compromise between the dignified Evening Post and the blatant Daily Mirror. Last week's front pages contained, not pictures...
First issue of Mortuary Digest was not impressive in appearance-32 pages with scanty advertising & illustration-but it was pungent in its discussion of funeral problems. One of Editor Witman's first editorials pooh-poohed the profession's effort to popularize the term "mortician...