Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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I am writing to you because, unfortunately, I do not know the address of the gentleman who came to see me a short time ago, and with whom I had a pleasant conversation, to be used, I presume, as material for a story in your esteemed magazine [TIME July 3...
As a group, Southerners insisted that Negroes in uniform keep strictly to the Jim Crow laws. Crowded buses, where the races were forced to mingle, became the scene of ugly flare-ups. In some sections bus drivers toted guns. The South was prepared to back up its Jim Crow laws...
Better to Worse. But the Army knew well what kind of a dragon it had by the tail. Army officials could recall the days after World War I when brooding Negroes came back from overseas. Then there had been race riots all around the country; in Washington 2,000 troops...
Damnation! He cited a Presbyterian chaplain who "never taught a class at the Chaplains' School but what he used profanity. On one occasion [when] one of the students was giving a sermon before the class, the student happened to say 'I think,' and at this [the chaplain...
Double Indemnity (Paramount) is the season's nattiest, nastiest, most satisfying melodrama. James M. Cain's novelette was carnal and criminal well beyond screen convention. Director Billy Wilder's casting is just as unconventional. Naturals for their parts are Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman capable of...