Word: play
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cutting of flowers . . . the avoidance of unwittingly damaging weeds at a roadside -all of these are most neurotic . . . The fact that men like Schweitzer and Gandhi have been lauded and idealized for their "ethics" in such matters is a striking indication of what part neurotic trends can play in religion and ethics in our still quite primitive civilization...
...that afternoon, the play began for keeps. There were a few wise-looking Americans and many sheepish Europeans. One lorgnetted lady inspected the game, flounced away horrified. This was not the old Monte Carlo she knew. A Briton fumed: "If they expect people to play this beastly game, the least they can do is to let them sit down...
Britain's King George, footloose once more after his long bout with a form of Buerger's disease (TIME, Dec. 6 et seq.), felt fit enough to take to the dance floor at a party at Londonderry House, and play host to 7,000 guests at a garden party at Buckingham Palace. In a busy week, he also found time to lend his approval to the engagement of his nephew, 26-year-old George Henry Hubert Lascelles, seventh Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman...
Admiring the "good grammar" of a cricket player's batting, the Manchester Guardian's scholarly Neville Cardus once called the batsman, a Lancashireman named Watson, "the [Samuel] Johnson of cricket." Demanded outraged Cricketer Watson: "Who did this bloke Johnson play...
...Number Can Play (MGM) sets out to prove that gambling is a true test of character. If it is, the hero (Clark Gable) is pure gold. Owner of a legal gambling establishment, Gable is devoted to his wife (Alexis Smith) and his only son Paul (Darryl Hickman). He potters about his cluttered middle-class cellar like any respectable family man, and, like many a middle-aged business executive, nurses a bad heart and frustrated hopes for a fishing trip. Above all, he is "a nut for human dignity" (as one of his employees puts it) and always has a kind...