Word: pent-up
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...Local 751 of the Aeronautical Mechanics Union, an affiliate of A. F. of L. Two months ago, the editor of the local's house organ, Aero Mechanic, got out a "sneak" edition loaded with dynamite. In it young, nervous Editor Clifford A. Stone had packed all the pent-up resentment of months. He charged that...
Fortnight ago, the long fight ended in fireworks on the House floor. Gentle Bob Ramspeck, victory in sight, got tough. He took the floor for 18 explosive minutes, with his Georgia drawl grown corrosive, laid about him with two years' pent-up wrath. When he was through, spoilsmen's bodies were figuratively heaped around him. In a daze the House passed the bill, 206-to-139. With Mr. Ramspeck to the White House last week must have marched the ghosts of all the Presidents who have been harassed to desperation by appointments; President James A. Garfield, slain...
...chased ghosts and phantoms, looked backward to bemoan old mistakes and ancient blunders. Greater sign of weakness was that-though no longer was a crisis doubted-no great national program came into being that could give each man his place in a giant effort, give a creative release to pent-up emotions...
...performances. Lee Cobb may be called the conscience of the drama. He conveys the futility and emotional vehemence of a man fighting for his ideals. Everywhere he is frustrated; at times, sad to relate, by the script itself which does not permit an adequate expression of his pent-up spleen...
...Penitentiary is old enough to be remembered with horror by Dickens in his American Notes (1842). It was known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged their Christmas musicale. Sixteen pent-up voices serenaded The Little Man Who Wasn't There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written...