Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt said that he had been thinking of much the same thing: he had four sons (James, 31; Elliott, 29; Franklin Jr., 25; John, 23) and the law of averages would hit him harder than Maury Maverick. With a froglike grin, Mayor Maverick said that he hoped the President sent Elliott first...
...phonograph record industry worth a small mint, but it has shown nightclub owners and theatre operators that life is something besides a bowl of red ink. The San Francisco Fair wasn't doing too well until Benny Goodman and cohorts arrived on the scene. And we doubt very much that Mr. Whalen has been booking swing bands for the New York Fair because he likes their brand of "jump" music...
...There is much in this to bewilder the average hearer. If the President means merely that this country should keep alive the civilized ideals upon which an enduring peace must be based, then it is indeed possible for us to devote ourselves to the "tasks at home," while yet mildly influencing the solution of the problems abroad. But if instead, as his naked words seem to indicate, Mr. Conant visualizes something more definite than this, if he is urging the United States to take a positive leadership in the peace settlement, then his position is untenable. Even the most remote...
Theirs was something of a tour de force. But onlookers will find much more to admire in the course taken by Granville Hicks, who refused to follow them through their tortuous dialectical labyrinths. For he demonstrated his possession of something they did not have: intellectual integrity...
...Hicks, for one, refused to live in this neat and fanciful little fabrication. While the points of his disagreement are not yet fully known, this much is clear. He refused to crawl before the "bear that walks like a snake" simply because Party rules bade him do so. He refused to prostitute his intellect to Party discipline when every ounce of reason cried otherwise...