Word: pointing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Alan Barth, editorial writer for the Washington Post, emphasized this point the most. He said, "An editorial writer is first a reporter who knows how to read as well as listen and second, one who wants to improve the community of which he is a part. Starting as a reporter will keep an editorial writer from living in an ivory tower...
During the course of the year, every conceivable facet of the school's decadence is ruthlessly assaulted. Guy Hudson does most of the attacking, although the high point of the story (but the low point for the aging Principal, Mr. Pilkey) is the resignation of Judge Hopkins V as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, in protest to Mr. Pilkey's attempts to "pack" the Board with Alumni. "No sir," says the Judge, "I shall simply watch you and your school with the amused detachment of one who is in the know, with the Olympian shrug of a former lover...
Previously, Pierce had beaten Kirkland's Ste Falk in the semi-finals and Zeltlin had downed Adams' Pete Ode. Under the scoring system, a team made one point for each win in the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and finals...
...would be a good idea to sit through the even more venerable "The Bride Walks Out"; its completely dated gags and situations go far to point up the timelessness of the Barrie story. It is also interesting as a prematurely exhumed time-capsule of the early '30s, with their long skirts, rectangular automobiles, fifteen-cents-for-the-first-quarter-mile taxicabs, and an unwrinkled and suspiciously flat-chested Barbara Stanwyck making the inevitable Hollywood decision about Career vs. Home...
...point is this: the landlord has a right to a fair return on his investment regardless of the fact that he is a member of a minority group and hence not interesting to the so-called "Fair Deal." What about the dire predictions that accompanied the removal of the O.P.A.? Has there been a continuing spiral? No, the law of supply and demand is quickly re-asserting itself...