Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most ironic note of the whole incident was struck by the Youth Council in its declaration that, "We believe in free speech so intensely that we will not permit our democratic liberties to be abused by those who would take away our liberties." The essence of free speech is that as long as they do not incite immediate violence, men shall be allowed to speak their mind no matter how pernicious their doctrine may be. The worth of ideas is to be tested in the marketplace of political discussion, and the decision to be rendered at the polls. The very...
...value of new building in the first six months of 1947 totaled $5,356,000,000, a whopping 40.1% more in dollar volume than in the same period last year. Increases were even bigger in private residential building (63.2%) and public residential building (75.6%). The Department failed to note that 1) increases in volume were chiefly due to an increase of about 25% in prices, and 2) unitwise, residential building was still 25% below expectations...
...bewildered veteran who received it penciled a note across its face: "What the hell does this mean?" and mailed, it to his Congressman...
...Massenet's Thaïs, 33-year-old Edis, trained in the bel canto tradition, revealed a good dramatic soprano voice, whose only major flaw was an occasional dry, pingless top note. She also knew how to act, and her trim figure, revealed for the seduction of the monk Athanaël in the first act, made Paris audiences forget all the baggy Thaïses they had ever seen. Many a Frenchman (including Composer Massenet's nephew, Pierre) was reminded, in Edis' best moments, of an earlier Thaïs, Mary Garden. The comparison was appropriate...
...straw-hat circuit, Henry is worth every C-note of it. Horton gives a carefully turned performance as one of the most redoubtable rakes that ever jumped a garden wall. "I do not fall into the bass drum," he admits, "nor do I go up with the curtain. But everything else, I do." He simpers like a ninny, gives masterly double and triple takes (and even a few one-and-a-half takes, a Horton refinement). He waggles his square head in an idiotic semaphore of self-satisfaction, leers with lips that fit together like two nicked razor blades...